US Patent Issued to SAP on April 8 for "Index join query optimization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,380, issued on April 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Index join query optimization" was invented by Manuel Mayr (Walldorf, Germany), Wolfgang Stephan (Heidelberg, Germany) and Till Merker (Sandhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, there is provided a method including receiving a query request including a join, wherein the join includes a range between a first predicate of the join and a second predicate of the join; generating a query plan including an index join operator; executing the query plan including the index join operator including getting, from the sorted dictionary, the fir...