US Patent Issued to SAP on Jan. 13 for "Handling early exit in a pipelined query execution engine via backward propagation of early exit information" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,410, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Handling early exit in a pipelined query execution engine via backward propagation of early exit information" was invented by Christina Teflioudi (Heidelberg, Germany), Paul Willems (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 receiving a query request including a top k query operator for query plan generation, optimization, and execution; generating a query plan that includes at least one pipeline of a plurality of operators, wherein the at least one pipeline is associated with ...