ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,328, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"External services in distributed databases" was invented by Kristian Cordes-Andersen (Aarhus, Denmark) and Allan Stisen (Lystrup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer nodes associated with a cluster store a distributed database. As the cluster provides a distributed database service, some or all of the nodes may interface with one or more external services. The external services may be specified by a service agreement, or the external services may be dynamically specified by a user/customer of the distributed database service. The external servi...