US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 29 for "Failover and recovery for replicated data instances" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,311, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Failover and recovery for replicated data instances" was invented by Grant Alexander MacDonald McAlister (Seattle) and Swaminathan Sivasubramanian (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicated instances in a database environment provide for automatic failover and recovery. A monitoring component can periodically communicate with a primary and a secondary replica for an instance, with each capable of residing in a separate data zone or geographic location to provide a level of reliability and availability. A database running on the primary insta...