ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,192, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Promise keys for result caches of database systems" was invented by Norman May (Karlsruhe, Germany), Dan Ding (Xi'an, China), Zhe Qu (Xi'an, China) and Fei Qiu (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving, from a database client, an asynchronous lookup request including a key representative of a query and, in response, returning a value handle including a value promise, receiving, from the database client, a get request based on the value promise, determining that a query result corresponding to t...