ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,287, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Self-maintained tablespace" was invented by Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Jie Ling (Beijing), Shan Jiang (Beijing), Yu Huang (Beijing) and Yan Li Ma (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product are configured to: provide a tablespace comprising an original partition having a lower boundary L, an upper boundary U, a split percentage P, and a split ratio R; and in response to the original partition reaching a fullness of P, automatically split the original partition to a first p...