ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,753, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Database cluster management" was invented by Allan George Schrum (Wilsall, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing a database cluster are disclosed. A database cluster stores a database in a distributed manner among multiple nodes. Applications query a node in the database cluster with a database language query to access data in the database. If the node determines it is in a pre-shutdown state, the node returns both query results and a status indicator. Based on receiving the indication of the pre-shutdown status, the app...