Patent ID: 11941006
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
based on submission of a first query to a database, determining a plurality of candidate partitions of a search space corresponding to the database, wherein determining the plurality of candidate partitions comprises selecting sets of one or more candidate values of a first key to be appended to the first query;
evaluating the plurality of candidate partitions based on a plurality of heuristics;
selecting a first partition of the plurality of candidate partitions for execution of the first query based on the evaluating, wherein the first partition corresponds to a first of the sets of one or more candidate values of the first key;
obtaining a first subset of results of the first query, wherein the first subset of results is a result of executing the first query on the first partition of the search space; and
paginating the first subset of results of the first query.