ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,842, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Khoros LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management" was invented by Eric Manuel Falcao (Austin, Texas), Brett Hoerner (Austin, Texas), Matthew Swain (Austin, Texas) and Adam McElwee (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management, including configuring one or more host groups, determining one or more stripes associated with one or more shards distributed among the one or more host groups, receiving a query to retrieve da...