ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,791, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Database virtual partitioning" was invented by Simon Y. Wong (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database with virtual partitioning. A computer system used to implement the database receives a request for a database operation to be performed on data stored in a portion of the database, where the data has a group of logical partitions (e.g., tenants of a multi-tenant database), and where the portion of the database is not further physically partitioned. The computer system identifies a virtual partitioning scheme for the database operation, the ...