US Patent Issued to SAP on May 6 for "Snapshot changes for cloud systems during zero downtime upgrades" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,883, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Snapshot changes for cloud systems during zero downtime upgrades" was invented by Lars-Eric Biewald (Mannheim, Germany), Andrea Klein (Waghausel, Germany) and Stefan Runge (Morlenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations can include providing a snapshot table, replacing, in a first access schema, a first projection view with a union view, creating, in a second access schema, a snapshot projection view, a second projection view, and a set of database triggers, and during execution of an upgrade procedure that results in changes to records of the data...