ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,880, issued on May 6, was assigned to Stripe Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for zero downtime distributed search system updates" was invented by Ritesh Kumar (South San Francisco, Calif.), Susindaran Elangovan (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Priyanka Raju (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing search system upgrades is described. The method may include processing a software upgrade for a search system cluster distributed over one or more nodes, the one or more nodes comprising current search system data nodes. The method may also include allocating...