ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,096, issued on April 15, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Self-versioning data lake" was invented by Robert Walker (Wakefield, R.I.), Bradley Boudreau (Moncton, Canada) and Yves Legere (Moncton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to maintaining a self-versioning data lake. According to one embodiment, a method for providing access to a data lake can comprise maintaining a corpus of data in an initial version the data lake, monitoring versioning information for each of a plurality of schemas for data submitted to the data lake, and detecting a change in a schema of the plurality of...