US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Dec. 23 for "Managing metadata switches and platform licenses in a distributed system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,178, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Managing metadata switches and platform licenses in a distributed system" was invented by Gang Shu (South San Francisco, Calif.), Susan Levine (Redwood City, Calif.), Anthony Lai (Redwood City, Calif.) and Billy Ma (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are presented for configuring and managing metadata switches and platform licenses in a distributed system. Using metadata switches, a platform license can be developed for a software product without the need for an engineer to develop the platform license by hand. A software applica...