US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Optimizing query performance in a data virtualization system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,932, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing query performance in a data virtualization system" was invented by Ying Qi Pan (Beijing), Jun Hui Liu (Xi'an, China), Hai Jun Shen (Jin Nan, China), Ya Qiong Liu (Beijing) and Chang Sheng Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for optimizing query performance in a data virtualization system. A processor set generates a number of query collections comprising query statements. The processor set determines network transfer times for data between the data virtualization system and a number of data s...