ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,820, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Downtime-minimized database version deployment" was invented by Christian Lutter (Karlsruhe, Germany), Welf Walter (Waghausel, Germany) and Volker Driesen (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include determination of a plurality of artifacts of a first data schema and a first view schema of a first database version to be updated in a second database version, determination of target structures of a plurality of runtime objects for the second database version based on the artifacts, and loading of current structures of the runtime o...