ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,853, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Techniques for safe database migration with no downtime" was invented by Duc Trong Luong (Bellevue, Wash.), Xuekun Kou (Issaquah, Wash.) and Calvin Alexander Loncaric (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling efficient data migration between data stores with no downtime are disclosed. A distributed computing system can be implemented with an initial data store and a target data store. During the migration of a portion of the data from the initial data store to the target data store, the distributed computing system can ...