US Patent Issued to Google on June 3 for "Transaction ID accelerator for efficient garbage collection of old versions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,264, issued on June 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Transaction ID accelerator for efficient garbage collection of old versions" was invented by Amarnadh Sai Eluri (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for garbage collection includes obtaining a request to perform garbage collection on a target table. The target table includes a plurality of pages. The method includes determining, based on the request, a garbage collection transaction identifier (ID) specifying a global minimum transaction ID for garbage collection. For each respective page of a first set of pages of the plurality of p...