US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Exporting customer data using a compliant tenant shard" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,938, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Exporting customer data using a compliant tenant shard" was invented by Bo Liu (Sammamish, Wash.), Ke Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Ahmed Hassan Mohamed (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User data is extracted from a user data shard and copied into a user-isolated tenant shard. Instructions for accessing the user data are stored in a separate data store. A tenant administrator computing system retrieves and runs the instructions for accessing and exporting the user data from the user-isolated tenant shard."

The patent was filed on J...