ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,116, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Delayed split execution of a query" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects include processing the query from a client device to divide the query into a plurality of subqueries, identifying a data source that corresponds to each of the plurality of subqueries, and identifying an expected response time for each of the data sources. Based on a determination that at least one of the expected response times is greate...