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

Claim 19:
20. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to:
based on receipt of requests for next subsets of results of the query, for each of the requests, repeat the determination of candidate partitions based on generation of augmented versions of the query, evaluation of the augmented versions of the query, selection of one of the augmented versions of the query for execution, and pagination of a next subset of the results obtained from execution of the selected one of the augmented versions of the query; and
terminate the determination of candidate partitions based on a determination that a criterion for terminating query execution has been satisfied, wherein the criterion comprises a threshold number of consecutively executed queries that do not return any results.