US Patent Issued to Teradata US on July 8 for "Automatic query routing" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,922, issued on July 8, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).

"Automatic query routing" was invented by John Jeffrey Mayrack (Minneapolis), Sriram K. Somayajula (Cerritos, Calif.), Thomas Julien (San Marcos, Calif.), John Chapra (Encinitas, Calif.) and John Lawrence Perkins Jr. (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data request that references an external data environment object (foreign object) is identified. A Data Manipulation Language (DML) statement for accessing the object is traversed in a defined order to identify foreign servers having the foreign object. Connections are attempted to foreign servers in th...