ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,491, issued on May 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Home region switch" was invented by Arsalan Ahmad (Redmond, Wash.), Martinus Petrus Lambertus van den Dungen (Snohomish, Wash.), Lokesh Gupta (Belmont, Calif.), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.) and Nikhil Yograj Vaishnavi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches of reassigning a home region from a first data center to a second data center as requested by a customer are described herein. The home region is able to implement write operations to a domain, whereas other data centers cannot implement write operations to the dom...