US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 16 for "Multi-tenant database resource utilization" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,217, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multi-tenant database resource utilization" was invented by Pratheesh Ezhapilly Chennen (Fremont, Calif.) and Prakash Ramaswamy (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the disclosed systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products may provide for determination of resource usage by tenants in a multi-tenant server system. Tenants may provide resource requests to a database of the multi-tenant server system and such resource requests may include context data. Periodic snapshots of the database may be performed to deter...