ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,232, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Master Card International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for managing offline database access" was invented by Kenneth L. Long (O'Fallon, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for managing access to data stored in a database is provided. The method includes storing in the database a switch parameter having a first value, storing in the database at least two instances of a data object wherein each of the instances includes a unique identifier, receiving a client query from a requestor, determining by the computing device an active instance from the at leas...