ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,787, issued on June 10, was assigned to Salesforce Inc..
"Methods and systems for stateful workflow execution" was invented by Andrey Falko (San Francisco) and Tommy Page Odom (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing systems and methods are provided for executing steps of a workflow in a stateful and parallelizable manner. A worker computing system receives indication of an assigned step of the workflow and downloads, to its local storage, a snapshot of changes from a preceding step of the workflow from a distributed storage on a network, where the snapshot includes data indicative of the changes associated with execut...