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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:
Jul. 25, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2021
Applicant:

Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);

Inventors:

Varun Srivastava, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yiye Ruan, Columbus, OH (US);

Yan Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0625 (2013.01); G06F 16/3326 (2019.01); G06F 16/3338 (2019.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: for each respective record in a plurality of records, assigning the respective record: (1) to a first database cluster on a first database server; or (2) to a second database cluster on a second database server; receiving a search request from a requester; executing the search request in the first database cluster to retrieve a first set of results; when the first set of results is greater than a threshold number of results, presenting the first set of results to the requester; and when the first set of results is less than the minimum number of results: executing the search request in the second database cluster to create a second set of results; and presenting the second set of results to the requester, wherein: the threshold number of results is configured such that a probability that the first set of results is greater than the minimum number of results is at least fifty percent. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.


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