US Patent Issued to DASSAULT SYSTEMES on Dec. 2 for "Disconnected operation within distributed database systems" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,988, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES SE (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Disconnected operation within distributed database systems" was invented by Trek Skyward Palmer (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for disconnected operation in a distributed database system. In an embodiment, the distributed database system implements a disconnected mode of operation allowing isolated regions of database nodes to provisionally commit transactions, with the global requirements of those transactions later satisfied by a transparent healing process after network connectivity is reestablished...