MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617073135 A) filed by International Business Machines on June 12, 2026, for Database Switchover In A Distributed Database System.
Inventors include Sun, Hong Wei; Jiang, Peng Hui; Sun, Yu Zhuo Number; Jia, Xi Xue; and Li, Zhi Hong.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: A proactive switchover process in a distributed database system evaluates available resources for a plurality of database instances based on database performance metrics of the database instances and resource metrics for physical hosts of the database instances. Periodic collection and storing of the metrics dataset provid...