US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on Dec. 2 for "Optimized database system with updated materialized view" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,993, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Optimized database system with updated materialized view" was invented by Derek Stride (Ottawa) and Oleksiy Kovyrin (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The server hosting the database scans a binlog for database change events. When a log consumer identifies a change event indicating that certain database records were modified, the consumer pulls only the identifiers of the modified records from the binlog. The log consumer then populates and pushes only the identifiers of the modified records into a non-transitory storage location that is accessible to a datab...