US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Data rule workload distribution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,580, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data rule workload distribution" was invented by Chun Hua Sun (Beijing), Xu Bin Cai (Beijing), Yi Yang Ren (Beijing), Wei Wang (Beijing), Pin Lv (Beijing), Jian Ling Shi (Baoji, China) and Chun Leng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include generating a rule operator comprising a rule table; generating a rule operator group comprising rule operators containing similar rule tables; communicating the rule operator group to a shared compute node; retrieving table data associated with the rule table of ...