ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,792, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).
"Auto-mated price performance offers for cloud database systems" was invented by Louis Martin Burger (Escondido, Calif.), Frank Roderic Vandervort (Ramona, Calif.) and Douglas P. Brown (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cloud database system, a system and method for analyzing query workloads on installed customer systems and generating tiered offers promoting higher query execution speeds in the form of better response times for a selected portion of queries in exchange for a higher price. Upon selecting an offer, the cloud database syst...