US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Optimizing query execution in a data virtualization system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,713, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing query execution in a data virtualization system" was invented by Chang Sheng Liu (Beijing), Yan Li Xu (Beijing), Xue Huang (Beijing), Lei Cui (Beijing) and Hai Jun Shen (Jin Nan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for optimizing query execution in a data virtualization system is provided. A processor set receives a query using the data virtualization system. The processor set determines capabilities for the data source to identify a portion of functions and a portion of query operations from the qu...