ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,420, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Accessing large objects" was invented by Hong Mei Zhang (Beijing), Shu Hua Liu (Beijing), Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Fang Chen (Beijing) and Xiao Hui Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) identifies in a query from a requestor, a predicate(s) comprising a partial access of large object (LOB) data from a LOB. The processor(s) caches a location of the partial access of the LOB data in a buffer, labeling the location wit...