US Patent Issued to DataStax on Oct. 21 for "Data streaming between nodes of a database system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,238, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DataStax Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data streaming between nodes of a database system" was invented by T Jake Luciani (Stanford, Conn.) and Sergio Bossa (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming operation is performed by nodes of cluster that implement a database. A method includes a first node determining data segments from data in a first data file stored at the first node for transfer to a second node of the cluster. The first node generates segment offset data for each data segment defining an offset position of the data segment relative to positions in the first data file. The f...