ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,609, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Failover of domains" was invented by Gregg Alan Wilson (Austin, Texas), Martinus Petrus Lambertus van den Dungen (Snohomish, Wash.), Arsalan Ahmad (Redmond, Wash.), Robert Lee Tesch II (Seattle), Girish Nagaraja (Sammamish, Wash.), Lokesh Gupta (Belmont, Calif.) and Nikhil Yograj Vaishnavi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach of performing data center failover using an address that indicates a backup data center. The address includes common names indicating a data center with a domain and a backup datacenter with a rep...