ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,349, issued on June 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Automatic database query load assessment and adaptive handling" was invented by Stephen P. Sheldon (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with managing query loads are described. In one embodiment, a system is configured to define a fingerprint for received queries that are requested for execution on a database system and determine whether the defined fingerprint matches or does not match an existing fingerprint. For queries having a fingerprint that does not match an existing fingerprint: ...