ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,152, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Reading query results from an external data system" was invented by Raman Arora (Seattle), Ankit Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Meng Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hailun Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sophia Rui Zhu (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device can receive a query in a first query language that identifies a set of data to be processed and determine that at least a portion of the set of data resides in an external data system that uses a different query language. The query system can translate the query in the first query langu...