ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,809, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Virtual file system for transactional data access and management" was invented by Fady Sedrak (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage management method includes detecting a data change to data in a data repository, identifying metadata of the data change, and storing the metadata in a virtual file, the virtual file being in a data storage format that is compatible with one or more data analysis tools. In response to a subsequent user request to access metadata of the data in the data repository, the method may transmit one or more...