ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,985, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cloudera Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for an adaptive and service level agreement aware paging system" was invented by Yida Wu (Seattle), Abhishek Rawat (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincent Kulandaisamy (Lakeway, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein include writing pages of data to blocks, the data associated with an operator; writing the blocks to a file based on a sequential arrangement of the data in the blocks; writing the file to a spill data store; and executing an instruction by programmable circuitry to batch read the blocks in sequential order ...