ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,927, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Buffer pool resource allocation" was invented by Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing), Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing) and Rui Wang (Xian, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for managing buffer pool usage includes identifying a database comprising one or more buffer pools and a set of database objects, adding a virtual layer between the set of database objects and the one or more buffer pools, wherein the virtual layer is configured to manage buffer pool resource utilization, managing, using the added virtual layer...