US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 4 for "Recovering from interruptions in database replication streams" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,505, issued on March 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Recovering from interruptions in database replication streams" was invented by Ramesh Shankar (Redmond, Wash.), Raman Mittal (Kirkland, Wash.), Minsoo Oh (Seattle) and Andrew Willis Callahan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interruptions in an ordered replication stream can be received from in a database. A database instance of the ordered replication stream may detect missing log records and then evaluate log records that are subsequently received to determine whether to update a portion of an in-memory data structure for performing database requests...