US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Jan. 13 for "Selective aggregation of records for the application of a function" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,470, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Selective aggregation of records for the application of a function" was invented by Daniel S. Tow (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for selectively aggregating records based on a downstream function to be applied to the records are disclosed. A system obtains an instruction corresponding to a set of records and a function to be applied to the set of records. The system determines whether the function meets a particular criteria for aggregating records prior to transmitting the records to an application for executin...