US Patent Issued to EBAY on May 20 for "Method and system for reducing connections to a database" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,232, issued on May 20, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and system for reducing connections to a database" was invented by Christopher J. Kasten (Rancho Cordova, Calif.), Igor Chernyshev (San Jose, Calif.) and Greg Seitz (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system automatically maintains a plurality of client connections associated with a plurality of clients, the plurality of client connections including active and idle connections. A first server receives a request from a client of the plurality of clients to access a second server of a plurality of second servers communicatively coupled to the f...