ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,107, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Efficient handling of data purge requests" was invented by Lei Wang (Shanghai), Fen Li (Shanghai), Haipeng Wu (Shanghai), Yunfeng Jiang (Shanghai), Lai Wei (Shanghai) and Feng Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to the efficient handling of data purge requests in the context of a distributed storage system. A plurality of data purge requests is stored in a first data structure. The data purge requests may be grouped into batches that are processed at least partially in parallel. A first data purge request from...