ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,765, issued on July 15, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Cooperative compression in distributed databases" was invented by Joseph Lynch (Gaithersburg, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments a computer-implemented method for managing use of a shared compression dictionary in a distributed database environment. The method includes determining that a given version of the shared compression dictionary should be designated as a current primary version of the shared compression dictionary. The method also includes receiving, from a client device, first write data compressed with a previous primary versi...