ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,857, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Conflict-free write operations in multi-master database" was invented by Madhu Pavan Kothapally (Warangal, India), Narinder Kaur (Ludhiana, India), Shivi Kashyap (Hyderabad, India), Meer Nasser Ali (Hyderabad, India) and Manoj Kaila (Pedana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a multi-master database includes defining a database cluster having a plurality of databases. Each database is assigned to a corresponding geographic region. Read/write requests originating from a user are assigned to a database with the same cor...