ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,734, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Techniques for data retention" was invented by Jonathan Bruce (San Rafael, Calif.), Eli Levine (San Francisco), Simon Toens (San Francisco) and Ian Varley (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for managing data in a relational database environment and a non-relational database environment. Data in the relational database environment that is static and to be maintained beyond a preselected threshold length of time is identified. The data is copied from the relational database and stored in the data the non-relational database. Acce...