ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,438, issued on July 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Database like peeking" was invented by Colm McHugh (Dublin), Bradley Glasbergen (Squamish, Canada), Prateek Swamy (Livermore, Calif.) and Yi Xia (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to query planning and execution. A computer system can receive a database statement that comprises a LIKE predicate that defines a set of pattern parameters. The computer system may generate first and second query paths for a query plan associated with the database statement. The first query path utilizes an index associated with a database t...