ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,626, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Database query distribution" was invented by Sudipto Das (Redmond, Wash.), Dhruv Goel (Bellevue, Wash.), Kimi Shah (Seattle) and Jatin Singla (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query placement system to receive a query from a client of a managed database service and identify a pool of processing clusters, respectively capable of processing the query. The query placement system randomly selects a first subset of two or more processing clusters from the pool of processing clusters. The query placement system sends the query to a first selected pr...