ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,674, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Query offloading in a computer system" was invented by Thomas Rech (Rittersheim, Germany), Hans-Jurgen Zeltwanger (Weinsberg, Germany), Dirk Nakott (Stuttgart, Germany), Jens Peter Seifert (Gaertringen, Germany), Martin Jungfer (Ostelsheim, Germany), Holger Hellmuth (Bensheim, Germany), Jorn Klauke (Petersberg, Germany) and Alexander Zietlow (Sandhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach includes collecting metadata indicative of a computer system comprising (i) a primary database, configured to connect to a secondary datab...