US Patent Issued to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for optimizing a database query" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,847, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Gui Zhou Province, China).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing a database query" was invented by Arunprasad P. Marathe (Kanata, Canada) and Shu Lin (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus for optimizing a database query. Embodiments expand the scope of query optimization to two or more query optimizers. Therefore, a larger class of plan trees can be explored, and a more optimal (for example faster) physical plan may be chosen for execution. The query will continue to be executed by the "original", "h...