US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "System and method for data replication using a single master failover protocol" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,489, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"System and method for data replication using a single master failover protocol" was invented by Timothy Andrew Rath (Des Moines, Wash.), Jakub Kulesza (Bellevue, Wash.) and David Alan Lutz (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that implements a data storage service may store data on behalf of storage service clients. The system may maintain data in multiple replicas of various partitions that are stored on respective computing nodes in the system. The system may employ a single master failover protocol, usable when a replica attempts to becom...