ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,179, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Reparallelization for workload skewing database operations" was invented by Christina Teflioudi (Heidelberg, Germany), Paul Willems (Heidelberg, Germany) and Till Merker (Sandhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for parallelization may include identifying, within a sequence of operations comprising a query pipeline for executing a query, a workload skewing operation whose input dataset and output dataset exhibit an above-threshold difference in size. A reparallelization point may be inserted in the query pipeline subsequent to the workload skewing...