ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,856, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Distributed database configuration" was invented by Alexander Shraer (Stanford, Calif.), Artyom Sharov (Haifa, Israel), Arif Abdulhusein Merchant (Los Altos, Calif.) and Brian F. Cooper (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicas are selected in a large distributed network, and the roles for these replicas are identified. In one example, a leader is selected from among candidate computing clusters. To make this selection, an activity monitor predicts or monitors the workload of one or more clients. Different activities of the workload are given...