Patent ID: 11928120
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY, LLC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. One or more computer storage devices having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, which, on execution by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first query for a connected data set distributed across a plurality of regions comprising a first region and a second region, wherein the first region stores a first data entity, wherein the first region is subject to a first data flow limitation on the first data entity, and wherein the second region stores a reference to the first data entity in place of storing the first data entity;
receiving a first state of an execution of the first query in the first region;
receiving a second state of an execution of the first query in the second region, wherein the second state includes the reference to the first data entity;
merging the first state and the second state with the first query to produce a merged query;
executing the merged query in the first region to obtain a third state;
synthesizing a final query result for the first query using the first state, the second state, and the third state, wherein the reference to the first data entity replaced with by the first data entity in the final query result; and
reporting the final query result for the first query.