US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 2 for "Multi-master management of hierarchical master and reference data" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,978, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Multi-master management of hierarchical master and reference data" was invented by Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.) and Douglas Ray Cosby (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data synchronization system accesses a plurality of data sets. The system receives a subscription from a third application to a first data set of a first application. When the system receives a notification of an update to a first item of the first data set, and determines via a mapping within the subscription, a value to use as a version of the first field for ...