ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,061, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Intelligent database page prefetching for faster query processing" was invented by Pratik Sharma (Mumbai, India), Vamsavardhan Thotakura (Bangalore, India), Souvik Dhargupta (Konnagar, India) and Vivek Ramnani (Kalol, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligent prefetching of database pages for improved query processing are described. Page access patterns for queries are collected over time and used to update a graph data structure to include collections of nodes corresponding to database pages that are often and/or recently accessed toget...