US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 8 for "Ubiquitous search on data stored in the RDBMS" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,378, issued on April 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Ubiquitous search on data stored in the RDBMS" was invented by Saurabh Naresh Netravalkar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aleksandra Czarlinska (San Jose, Calif.), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for creating a "ubiquitous search index" which allows for full-text as well as value range-based search across all columns from multiple database tables, multiple user-defined unmaterialized views, and external sources. In one implementation, the data ...