ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,853, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Centralized metadata repository with relevancy identifiers" was invented by Daniel Buchmann (Karlsruhe, Germany), Timm Falter (Sinsheim-Hilsbach, Germany) and Ralf Dentzer (Hockenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are described for storing and retrieving metadata for database artefacts. A client request is received that includes a relevancy identifier. The relevancy identifier is useable to determine a subset of metadata that should be provided in response to the request. Metadata, including in metadata objects or database artefac...