ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,251, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for handling polling frequency in event delivery network (EDN)" was invented by Tapan Kanti Saha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for reducing the polling requests received at the event delivery network (EDN) of the service-oriented architecture system (e.g., a cluster of SOA server instances). An on-demand parallel polling technique may be implemented by doing one or more of categories for events, consumer applications and/or polling threads with different polling time intervals; thread-sh...