US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 23 for "Index-based modification of a query" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,091, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Index-based modification of a query" was invented by Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jack Randall Smiley (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for modifying a query based on a data index of nodes in a data set are disclosed. A system modifies queries based on query terms associated with indexed data. The system modifies queries to include query terms based on indexed data or to obtain values for query terms that are not associated with indexed node properties. The system adds query terms, that reference indexed d...