US Patent Issued to ServiceNow on July 8 for "Time-series database for storing and indexing events and metrics" (Massachusetts, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,393, issued on July 8, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time-series database for storing and indexing events and metrics" was invented by Gerald Sangudi (Framingham, Mass.), Raymond Lau (Charlestown, Mass.), Timothy Smith (Sudbury, Mass.) and Donghang Lin (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present application, a system and method for storing and retrieving time-series data in a time-series database are disclosed. A data stream collected at a periodic collection time interval is stored. The stored data stream is indexed in an index, including by storing in the index a representative index entr...