ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,205, issued on July 22.
"Maintaining archive and cut-off dates for querying a data store" was invented by Elizabeth Lin (San Francisco), Nils Petter Eriksson (Skellefta, Sweden) and Ledion Bitincka (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a computer-implemented method may entail receiving a search request. A first data store and a second data store, that contains data archived from the first data store, may be identified. Data from the first data store may remain available in the first data store for a limited period of time once archived to the second data store. The first data store storing data in a first form...