US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 9 for "Data retention management based on consistency of table growth and data purging activity" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,971, issued on June 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data retention management based on consistency of table growth and data purging activity" was invented by Beng Kiong Cheah (Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia), Shu Hsien Lee (Air Itam, Malaysia) and Lead Ta Choo (Puchong SL, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for data retention management based on consistency of table growth and data purging activity. One method comprises obtaining changes in size over time of a database table; predicting, using a regression model, an estimated table size of the database table; evaluating data features th...