ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,704, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Stale data recognition" was invented by Daniel Martin (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Jia Heng Zhong (San Jose, Calif.), Sowmya Kameswaran (San Jose, Calif.) and Manogari Nogi Simanjuntak (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and system include a processor(s) obtaining a query request from an application via a source database management system to a target database management system, where the query request comprises a query and a query timestamp indicating a last update to table(s) in the s...