IP Library Granted Patent US 12,651,015
Granted Patent B2
US 12,651,015 · App. 18/913,784 · Granted Jun 9, 2026

Vector generation and indexing system

Inventor: Houman Ghaemi (British Columbia, CA)
Assignee: SAP SE
G06F16/3347
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Patent No.
US 12,651,015
App. No.
18/913,784
Granted
Jun 9, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for generating and storing vector embeddings for each set of data of the sets of data in respective table of a plurality of tables and storing, for each table, a model type and version corresponding to a model used to generate the vector embeddings stored in each respective table of the plurality of tables. The systems and methods further generate a response to a query by generating vector embeddings for the query with a same model type and version as the model type and version used to generate vector embeddings for one or more tables with relevant data to the query.

Claims (64)

1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:

generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data to be stored in each of a respective table of a plurality of tables;

storing the high-dimensional vector embeddings for each set of data of the sets of data in the respective table of the plurality of tables;

storing, for each table, a model type and version corresponding to a model used to generate the high-dimensional vector embeddings stored in each respective table of the plurality of tables;

receiving a query and determining a subset of tables of the plurality of tables that are relevant to the query;

determining a stored model type and version associated with each table of the subset of tables relevant to the query, wherein the stored model type and version comprises at least a first model type and a first version and a second model type and a second version;

generating a first high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using at least the first model type and first version and a second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using the second model type and second version;

generating a set of similar data based on at least the first high-dimensional vector embedding and the second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the subset of tables; and

generating, in real time or near real time from receipt of the query, a response to the query based on the set of similar data.

2 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein after generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data to be stored in each of a respective table of the plurality of tables, the method comprises:

generating a vector index for each table of the plurality of tables.

3 . The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein generating the set of similar data based on at least the first high-dimensional vector embedding and the second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the subset of tables comprises using a function that can compare two vectors for similarity and utilize the vector index to compare the two vectors.

4 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least two different model types are used to generate high-dimensional vector embeddings.

5 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least two different versions of a model type are used to generate high-dimensional vector embeddings.

6 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data comprises converting each piece of data of each set of data to a vector space with a given number of dimensions.

7 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the set of similar data is determined based on at least on a comparison of the first high-dimensional vector embedding of the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in a first table and a comparison of the second high-dimensional vector embedding of the query and high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in a second table.

8 . The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the comparison is made using a function that can compare two vectors for similarity.

9 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the high-dimensional vector embeddings for a set of data stored in a first table were generated using a first model type and a first version, and further comprising:

re-generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for the set of data stored in the first table using the first model type and a second version;

storing the re-generated high-dimensional vector embeddings in the first table; and

updating, for the first table, the version corresponding to the first model type used to re-generate the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the set of data stored in the first table.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , further comprising:

receiving a second query corresponding to the first table;

determining the first model type and second version associated with the first table;

generating a high-dimensional vector embedding for the second query using the first model type and second version associated with the first table;

determining a second set of similar data in the first table based on the high-dimensional vector embeddings of the second query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the first table; and

generating a response to the second query based on the second set of similar data.

11 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein data comprises text, an image, audio, or video.

12 . A system comprising:

a memory that stores instructions; and

one or more processors configured by the instructions to perform operations comprising:

generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data to be stored in each of a respective table of a plurality of tables;

storing the high-dimensional vector embeddings for each set of data of the sets of data in the respective table of the plurality of tables;

storing, for each table, a model type and version corresponding to a model used to generate the high-dimensional vector embeddings stored in each respective table of the plurality of tables;

receiving a query and determining a subset of tables of the plurality of tables that are relevant to the query;

determining a stored model type and version associated with each table of the subset of tables relevant to the query, wherein the stored model type and version comprises at least a first model type and a first version and a second model type and a second version;

generating a first high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using at least the first model type and first version and a second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using the second model type and second version;

generating a set of similar data based on at least the first high-dimensional vector embedding and the second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the subset of tables; and

generating, in real time or near real time from receipt of the query, a response to the query based on the set of similar data.

13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein after generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data to be stored in each of a respective table of the plurality of tables, the operations comprise:

generating a vector index for each table of the plurality of tables.

14 . The system of claim 12 , wherein at least two different model types are used to generate high-dimensional vector embeddings or wherein at least two different versions of a model type are used to generate high-dimensional vector embeddings.

15 . The system of claim 12 , wherein generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data comprises converting each piece of data of each set of data to a vector space with a given number of dimensions.

16 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the set of similar data is determined based on at least on a comparison of the first high-dimensional vector embeddings of the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in a first table and a comparison of the second high-dimensional vector embeddings of the query and vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in a second table.

17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein the comparison is made using a function that can compare two vectors for similarity.

18 . The system of claim 12 , wherein the high-dimensional vector embeddings for a set of data stored in a first table were generated using a first model type and a first version, and the operations further comprising:

re-generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for the set of data stored in the first table using the first model type and a second version;

storing the re-generated high-dimensional vector embeddings in the first table; and

updating, for the first table, the version corresponding to the first model type used to re-generate the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the set of data stored in the first table.

19 . The system of claim 18 , the operations further comprising:

receiving a second query corresponding to the first table;

determining the first model type and second version associated with the first table;

generating a high-dimensional vector embedding for the second query using the first model type and second version associated with the first table;

determining a second set of similar data in the first table based on the high-dimensional vector embedding of the second query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the first table; and

generating a response to the second query based on the second set of similar data.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by at least one processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:

generating high-dimensional vector embeddings for sets of data to be stored in each of a respective table of a plurality of tables;

storing the high-dimensional vector embeddings for each set of data of the sets of data in the respective table of the plurality of tables;

storing, for each table, a model type and version corresponding to a model used to generate the high-dimensional vector embeddings stored in each respective table of the plurality of tables;

receiving a query and determining a subset of tables of the plurality of tables that are relevant to the query;

determining a stored model type and version associated with each table of the subset of tables relevant to the query, wherein the stored model type and version comprises at least a first model type and a first version and a second model type and a second version;

generating a first high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using at least the first model type and first version and a second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query using the second model type and second version;

generating a set of similar data based on at least the first high-dimensional vector embedding and the second high-dimensional vector embedding for the query and the high-dimensional vector embeddings for the sets of data stored in the subset of tables; and

generating, in real time or near real time from receipt of the query, a response to the query based on the set of similar data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 11, 2024
From: GHAEMI, HOUMAN
To: SAP SE
Reel/Frame 068879/0510 →
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