Ian R. Finlay

System and method for optimizing queries on views defined by conditional expressions having mutually exclusive conditions

Multi-mode data stream generator

Method and system for index sampled tablescan

Digital image processor for image scaling

Information retrieval system and method using index ANDing for improving performance

Method and apparatus for the scaling down of data

Information retrieval system and method for optimizing queries having maximum or minimum function aggregation predicates

Method and apparatus for scaling down of data

System and method for slow materialization sorting of partially ordered inputs in a database system

Method for the scaling down of data