US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on Dec. 23 for "Reducing electronic service disruptions during database migration" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,078, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing electronic service disruptions during database migration" was invented by Shuping Tien (San Jose, Calif.), Kenneth Kang (Campbell, Calif.), Samrat Roy (San Jose, Calif.), Bin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Pareshkumar Somabhai Patel (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source database and a target database are accessed. The source database contains data to be migrated over to the target database. The read operations from the target database and the write operations to the target database are ceased, while the read operations from the source da...