US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Time and value ordered data objects for a backup of a data set" (Washington, Wisconsin, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,983, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Time and value ordered data objects for a backup of a data set" was invented by James Christopher Sorenson III (Madison, Wis.), Hao He (Bellevue, Wash.), Nicholas Gordon (Seattle) and Mrithyunjaya Kumar Annapragada (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time and value ordering may be applied for items stored in data backups. A change log that persists changes to a data set may be updated with changes and used to update an in-memory table for the data set, which describes changes to items up to a current time. An event may be detected to seal the in-mem...