US Patent Issued to Google on May 12 for "System for optimizing storage replication in a distributed data analysis system using historical data access patterns" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,879, issued on May 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for optimizing storage replication in a distributed data analysis system using historical data access patterns" was invented by Alejandra Estanislao (Paris), Purujit Saha (Gold Bar, Wash.), Alan Pearson (Seattle) and Andrew Hitchcock (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Historical analysis of query patterns is used to discover relationships between data sets. These relationships are used to make optimal decisions about where to place data in a globally distributed environment in which locality of data is an important factor in providing good query pe...