ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,800, issued on March 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Scalable exactly-once data processing using transactional streaming writes" was invented by Pavan Edara (Sammamish, Wash.), Reuven Lax (Mountain View, Calif.), Ji Yang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Gurpreet Singh Nanda (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing data exactly once using transactional stream writes includes receiving, from a client, a batch of data blocks for storage on memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The batch of data blocks is associated with a corresponding sequence number and represents a...