US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 15 for "Hybrid database system for strongly consistent and highly scalable metadata storage" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,982, issued on July 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Hybrid database system for strongly consistent and highly scalable metadata storage" was invented by Venkateswararao Jujjuri (Beaverton, Ore.), Sushanth Rai (San Jose, Calif.), Jayant Kumar (Hyderbad, India) and Anup Ghatage (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing metadata of a distributed database system in a hybrid manner. A computer system may receive, from a computing device, a request to access a set of data stored in nodes of a distributed storage system that is a caching layer of the system. The system retrie...