ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,028, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"File existence checks using list API" was invented by Nemanja Matkovic (Seattle), Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.), Gaurav Saxena (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kedar Nitin Shah (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform that performs a file existence check is provided. The data platform creates a bounded page and selects a set of selected metadata files from a set of metadata files, where each selected metadata file includes a set of data file metadata files. Each member of the set of data file metadata files includes a file name of a respective da...