US Patent Issued to SAP on April 7 for "Hierarchy function result cache with dynamic conditions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,716, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Hierarchy function result cache with dynamic conditions" was invented by Xun Zhang (Xi'an, China), Yinghua Ouyang (Xi'an, China) and Zhen Tian (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a hierarchy function result cache that supports dynamic conditions. An example method includes identifying, in a database system, a request to execute a query that includes a hierarchy function. Dependency objects of the hierarchy function are collected. In response to determining that each dependency object is cacheable, dy...