ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,698, issued on April 29, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Query watchdog" was invented by Alicja Luszczak (Amsterdam), Srinath Shankar (Belmont, Calif.) and Shi Xin (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring job execution includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to start a cluster processing job. The processor is configured to determine whether processing a data instance associated with the cluster processing job satisfies a watchdog criterion; and in the event that processing the data instance satisfies the watchdog criterion, cause the pro...