US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 30 for "System and method for processing continuous queries with aggregating functions using accumulators" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,168, issued on June 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for processing continuous queries with aggregating functions using accumulators" was invented by Daniel Donald Gerlag (Chilliwack, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a continuous query including an aggregating function. An accumulator associated with the aggregating function is identified. A current aggregation result is generated for the aggregating function of the continuous query without accessing every entry of the accumulator. A continuous query...