US Patent Issued to eBay on July 21 for "Indexing cloud database logs in a distributed database store" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,172, issued on July 21, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Indexing cloud database logs in a distributed database store" was invented by Ramesh Shankar (Redmond, Wash.) and Navaneetha Krishnan Thanka Nadar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a transaction log index is used to index log records. The transaction log index comprises an in-memory transaction log index and an on-disk transaction log index. The log records are temporarily indexed in the in-memory transaction log index until the storage server can ensure that the corresponding log records are stored without any missing log re...