ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,229, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Managing database offsets with time series" was invented by Connie W. Yang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Daniel Graham Douglas (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of improving the functioning of a streaming platform system by managing database change stream offsets using a time series database are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer system retrieves an offset value from a plurality of offset values stored in a time series database, with the plurality of offset values being indexed in the time series database in time orde...