US Patent Issued to BMC Software on Sept. 16 for "Optimization of log record application during database recovery" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,153, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BMC Software Inc. (Houston).

"Optimization of log record application during database recovery" was invented by William J. Pothoff (Austin, Texas), Vladimir Prasolov (Tel Hai, Israel) and Konstantin Lavren Bobovich (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A captured sequence of log records for a copy of a database may be inspected to identify an obviating log record at a captured sequence position of the captured sequence and related to a page of the plurality of pages, the obviating log record corresponding to an obviating change that replaces an earlier change of an earlier log record. ...