US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Query admission control for online data systems based on response time objectives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,192, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Query admission control for online data systems based on response time objectives" was invented by Juan A. Colmenares Diaz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hao Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include tracking processing time metrics of multiple server queries. A processing time per query type is estimated using the tracked processing time metrics. A current queue wait time is estimated based on a number of queries currently in the queue and the estimated processing times of query types for each of the quer...