Patent 11520792 was granted and assigned to Palo Alto Networks on December, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A query requesting a count of unique data values for a specific attribute is received. The received query is used to generate and transmit a plurality of non-overlapping queries to a data store. A plurality of responses is received from the data store. Results from the plurality of responses is summed and the resulting sum is returned.