ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,602, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Multihost database host removal shortcut" was invented by Hans-Joerg Leu (Dossenheim, Germany), Dan Ding (Xi'an, China), Srinivas Gajjalakonda (Heidelberg, Germany), Fei Qiu (Xi'an, China), Carsten Mueller (Bruchsal, Germany) and Alexander Schroeder (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides more efficient techniques for removing a host from a multi-host database system. An instruction to remove a host system may be received. In response, a determination of whether the first host system does or does not store any source tables is made based...