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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2003
Applicants:
Alexios Boukouvalas, Seattle, WA (US);
Lubor J. Kollar, Redmond, WA (US);
Jinghao Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Arunprasad P. Marathe, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Alexios Boukouvalas, Seattle, WA (US);
Lubor J. Kollar, Redmond, WA (US);
Jinghao Liu, Redmond, WA (US);
Arunprasad P. Marathe, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method and computer-readable medium containing computer-executable instructions for tuning queries is provided. A query processor converts a query into an execution plan in a hierarchical format that conforms to a standardized schema. In one embodiment of the invention, the hierarchical format employed is XML.