ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,694, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cloudian Holdings Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Rule based metadata partitioning" was invented by Wenqin Zheng (San Mateo, Calif.) and Bharatendra Boddu (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rule based metadata partitioning may be used for metadata from a distributed database. The partitioning is based on rules for different buckets. The rules may be defined based on a defined set of syntax or using a predefined rule template. The partitioning may include dynamic adjustments and include auto detection for access patterns that are used for updating or creating new rules."
The patent was ...