US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Query performance discovery and improvement" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,480, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query performance discovery and improvement" was invented by Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China) and Xue Ying Zhang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments analyze a query pattern of an incoming query on a database, perform a semantic analysis of the query pattern of the incoming query, generate a re-write query that has an improved query performance in comparison to a query performance of the incoming query based on the analyzed query pattern and the semantic analysis; build a que...