ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,540, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Systems and methods of database connection and management of requests" was invented by Venkatesan Chandrasekaran (San Francisco), Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan (San Francisco), Sidarth Srinivas Conjeevaram (New Haven, Conn.), Vijayanth Devadhar (Fremont, Calif.) and Zeyu Zheng (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request at a database system that includes a primary node and one or more standby nodes. When the request is determined to be a read-only request and the previous transaction has been replicate...