ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,001, issued on May 13, was assigned to BNSF Railway Co. (Fort Worth, Texas).
"System and method for data pruning via dynamic partition management" was invented by Robert McKinley Collins Jr. (Argyle, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing data lifecycles that can provide an adaptable data management system configured to optimize the lifecycles of data and the reliability of databases. The system can provide data management systems with the ability to attach, detach, and drop segments of data based on key partitions of the data objects to optimize database utilization. By including the key partitions to ...