US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 27 for "Tracking row and object database activity into block level heatmaps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,229, issued on May 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Tracking row and object database activity into block level heatmaps" was invented by Vineet Marwah (San Ramon, Calif.), Sujatha Muthulingam (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amit Ganesh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for tracking row and object database activity into block level heatmaps is provided. Database activity including reads, writes, and creates can be tracked by a database management system at the finest possible level of granularity, or the row and object level. To efficiently record the trac...