ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,883, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).
"Method and system for query optimization" was invented by Joshua Ball (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to methods and systems for query optimization by receiving a query stream comprising a plurality of queries from one or more applications via the network; determining relationships among the plurality of queries, wherein each of the relationships is associated with a prior probability; modeling the plurality of queries based on the relationships with the corresponding prior probabilities; re-writing at least one of ...