US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Database index performance improvement" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,831, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database index performance improvement" was invented by Xiaobo Wang (Beijing), Shuo Li (Beijing), Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing) and Xiao Hui Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing database operations is provided. The method comprises receiving an insert statement for a database and determining if the insert statement is for a batch insert operation or random insert operation. For a batch insert operation, responsive to determining a threshold number of specified leaf pages are missing from a memory buffer pool of the database, the...