US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 2 for "Statement-level instead-of database triggers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,947, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Statement-level instead-of database triggers" was invented by Abhijith Anilkumar (San Francisco), Douglas Doole (Livermore, Calif.), Simon Y. Wong (San Carlos, Calif.) and Randy Philip Spalten (Benicia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to implementing a statement-level INSTEAD OF trigger. In one embodiment a computer system stores trigger information associated with a statement-level database trigger executable to initiate execution of at least one trigger instruction for a database instead of performing a particular datab...