US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 28 for "Native transaction guard" (California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,944, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Native transaction guard" was invented by Natesh Kedlaya (Redwood City, Calif.), Sukhada Pendse (Foster City, Calif.), Ajit Mylavarapu (Mountain View, Calif.), Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Carol Lyndall Colrain (Kansas City, Kan.), Xiaoli Qi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Juan R. Loaiza (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for Transaction Guard to impose at-most-once execution by generating and using the database's native transaction identifier, DB XID. In an implementation, DB XID is unique within a (...