ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,904, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Distributed aggregations in bigtable" was invented by Steven Niemitz (New York), Thomas Robert Magrino (Mamaroneck, N.Y.) and Douglas Moore Mcerlean (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a first node of a plurality of nodes of a distributed database, an update request for an aggregate value stored at the first node. The update request includes a first sequencer. Based on receiving the update request for the aggregate value, the method includes updating the aggregate value based on the update request, storing a log recor...