ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,284, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Distributed query optimization" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed queries are analyzed to identify repeated queries. Pattern of the repeated queries is learned, where the pattern provides information associated with at least availability of data sources used for responding to the repeated queries and response times of the data sources. For a data source in the data sources, a time window during which the d...