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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Garth A. Dickie, Framingham, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 7/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/244 (2019.01); G06F 7/36 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to embodiments of the present invention, methods, systems and computer-readable media are presented for processing a database query. The query may specify an arrangement for resulting data. A digest is generated for each of a plurality of database object elements. The plurality of database object elements are grouped or mapped into one or more groups based on the digest to arrange the database object elements in digest order. The database object elements from the one or more groups are extracted and/or processed in order of the digest, in accordance with the specified arrangement.


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