US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Aug. 26 for "Configuration and management of replication units for asynchronous database transaction replication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,909, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Configuration and management of replication units for asynchronous database transaction replication" was invented by Lik Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Leonid Novak (Castro Valley, Calif.), Sampanna Salunke (San Carlos, Calif.), Mark Dilman (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wei-Ming Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consensus protocol-based replication approach is provided. Chunks are grouped into replication units (RUs) to optimize replication efficiency. Chunks may be assigned to RUs based on load and replication throughput. Splittin...