Teradata Corporation v. SAP SE
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 TERADATA CORPORATION, et al., Case No. 18-cv-03670-WHO
Plaintiffs,
CLAIM CONSTRUCTION ORDER
v.
SAP SE, et al., Defendants.
BACKGROUND There are five patents asserted in this case. All the patents relate to computer-implemented database systems. Generally, all of them are related to data storage, organization, retrieval, analysis, or removal. The ʼ179 Patent (Patent Number 7,617,179, issued November 10, 2009), is titled “System and Methodology for Cost-Based Subquery Optimization Using a Left-Deep Tree Join Enumeration Algorithm,” and teaches “query optimization” in a “relational database system.” ʼ179 Patent (Dkt No. 211-3). The claimed query optimizer identifies a plan containing “access methods” to obtain specific data from various tables. ʼ179 Patent: 2:40-3:4. The optimizer considers whether to join or combine data within different tables and potential methods to accomplish this. Id. at 3:5-24. The optimizer then selects an “optimal…