ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,000, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Database table restoration for data with skewed distribution" was invented by Divyank Duvedi (Seattle), Anurag Mishra (Redmond, Wash.), Chase Kernan (Seattle) and Richard Krog (Bainbridge Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database management system obtains key ranges associated with partitions of a database table, and determines that restoration of data associated with at least one of these partitions would take time that is estimated to exceed a goal time. The database management system splits a partition into two or more additional partitions, s...