US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 11 for "Scalable index tuning with index filtering and index cost models" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,454, issued on March 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scalable index tuning with index filtering and index cost models" was invented by Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui (Redmond, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.), Surajit Chaudhuri (Kirkland, Wash.) and Wentao Wu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of training an index filter for an index tuning system includes receiving a plurality of different workloads and a plurality of different databases, each database including different tables and each workload including a plurality of queries; generating labeled traini...