ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,035, issued on May 13, was assigned to Datadog Inc. (New York).
"Consistent hashing with sequential indexing" was invented by Charles-Philippe Masson (Paris) and Homin K. Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology provides a consistent hashing approach that can be used with many types of hash functions. This approach, called flip hashing, enables dynamic adjustment of a hash table while satisfying balance and monotonicity requirements. Flip hashing is particularly applicable to database and load rebalancing applications due to its low computational cost and ease of implementation. As computing resources are add...