ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,912, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Performant dropping of snapshots by linking converter streams" was invented by Dirk Thomsen (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for improving performance when dropping database snapshots by linking converter streams associated with adjacent snapshots in a database system. A request is received to drop a snapshot. The database system iterates a first converter tree associated with a first converter stream to identify a first physical page number to be loaded. A physical page corresponding to ...