US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Large object data replication" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,442, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Large object data replication" was invented by Phillip Koza (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Within a database table being replicated from a source database to a target database, a first logged database operation on a database column holding large object (LOB) data is identified. The source database is queried for a plurality of rows of LOB data, each row in the plurality of rows of LOB data comprising LOB data stored in the database column holding LOB data. Responsive to determining that a first row of LOB data in the plu...