ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,602, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Log entry representation of database catalog" was invented by Gunes Aluc (Waterloo, Canada) and Iman Elghandour (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes reception of a first transaction including updates to a database catalog comprising transactions stored on a log and a timestamp of a snapshot of the database catalog, determination of a signature of a transaction stored on the log after the timestamp of the snapshot, determination, based on the signature, that a conflict exists between the updates to the database catalog and updates of the...