ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,887, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Query and data adaptive synopsis table" was invented by Oliver Schiller (Dettingen, Germany), Tobias Kevin Franzel (Tuebingen, Germany), James Liam Finnie (Renningen, Germany), Thomas Friedhelm Bohme (Boblingen, Germany), Toni Bollinger (Weil der Stadt, Germany) and Wieland Philipp Hoffmann (Holzgerlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include techniques for providing a query and data adaptive synopsis table. A non-limiting example method includes building a first synopsis table containing metadata for a da...