US Patent Issued to SAP on Oct. 7 for "Dynamic operator pruning based on state dependencies and intermediate results" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,951, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Dynamic operator pruning based on state dependencies and intermediate results" was invented by Paul Willems (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, there is provided a method including generating a query plan including in a first pipeline a first join operator and in a second pipeline a second join operator; executing at least a portion of the query plan including the first pipeline and the first join operator; detecting, based on the at least one operator usage state and the at least one operator pruning condition, an empty state ...