ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,105, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).
"Deleting data in a versioned database" was invented by Marin Creanga (Ottawa) and Dylan Ellicott (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for deleting data in a versioned database, comprising: generating a version visibility data structure (VVDS) from a version graph and scenario structure; determining each combination of feasible scenarios that when deleted, delete memory; evaluating an amount of memory reclaimed for each combination of feasible scenarios; and deleting one or more combination of scenarios to free up a specific amount of memory."
The...