US Patent Issued to Databricks on June 16 for "Access control of managed clusters performing data processing on cloud platforms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,330, issued on June 16, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Access control of managed clusters performing data processing on cloud platforms" was invented by Nong Li (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system manages access control for database queries in accordance with access control policies. The techniques may be used for access control of managed clusters in cloud platforms used for data processing, for example, for MapReduce operations. According to an embodiment, the access control policies are fine grained access control policies that allow a user to access a subset of datasets including data of a da...