ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,398, issued on April 14, was assigned to EBAY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Synchronizing state in large-scale distribution systems" was invented by Idan Zipris (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yan Gleyzer (Petah Tikva, Israel), Rami Yagil (Hadera, Israel) and Guy Rozenwald (Tel-Mond, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing client may receive a dataset replacement indication that indicates an upcoming synchronized data replacement in which processing clients are to synchronously replace a first synchronized dataset with a second synchronized dataset as well as a request period during which the processing clients are to request, at random...