ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,979, issued on March 18, was assigned to Zuora Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Self-healing data synchronization" was invented by Liangqi Wang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Junyi Song (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sean Mahbod (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-healing data synchronization process includes an initial stage in which a collection of data change events is received, a set of data record(s) corresponding to the data change event(s) is identified, and a syncing of the set of data record(s) is initiated. Data that indicates which data record(s) successfully synced and which failed is stored. During a subsequent ...