US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Online migration from an eventually consistent system to a strongly consistent system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,221, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Online migration from an eventually consistent system to a strongly consistent system" was invented by Lavina Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sean Quinlan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach to migrate data from a first type of distributed system to a second type of distributed system without locking data, where transactional dual writes are not available across the two systems. The approach starts by setting up a bi-directional replication between the first system and the second system. The first syst...