ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,979, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Subrange truncation of records" was invented by Vaibhav Arora (San Francisco), Christopher Drexelius (San Jose, Calif.), Terry Chong (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Thomas Fanghaenel (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that relate to truncating a subrange of records from a database table. A computer system receives a request to truncate the subrange of records. The request specifies a conditional expression that is usable to identify the subrange from other subranges of records of the database table. Before truncating the subrange of...