ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,791, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automated downscaling of data stores using parallel data replication" was invented by Prashant Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pradeep Baliganapalli Nagaraju (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for facilitating downscaling of data stores in a parallel manner (e.g., in a stateful system) is described herein. In embodiments, a request to scale down a data store is received at the data store. At a ledger manager, an indication of a set of ledgers, associated with the data store, for which to replicate is maintained. Based on the scale ...