ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,861, issued on May 12, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Future transaction processing" was invented by Douglas Ray Cosby (Austin, Texas), Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.) and Byron Kevin McKenzie (Garland, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing requests to modify a data set at future times are disclosed. The system receives a request to modify the data set at a future time, such as in a future time window. The system generates a representation of the data set at the future time. The system determines the future state of the data set based on the current state of the data set an...