US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 2 for "Hybrid query system for searching unstructured data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,032, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid query system for searching unstructured data" was invented by Itay Neeman (Seattle) and Bradford H. Lovering (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described herein for executing queries expressed with reference to a structured query language against unstructured data. A user issues a structured query through a traditional structured data management ("SDM") application. Upon receiving the structured query, an SDM driver analyzes the structured query and extracts a data structure from the unstructured data, if necessary. The struc...