ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,105, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Query cached filter" was invented by Eyal Gordon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oren Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for responding to a query, the method may include (a) receiving, by a storage system compute element, a query that comprises one or more conditions related to a content of at least one data unit (DU); (b) searching, based on the one or more conditions and on a condition fulfillment information (CFI), for one or more irrelevant groups of DUs to be skipped during the responding to the query; wherein the one or more irrel...