ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,695, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Scalable mapping for database extent storage on physical nodes" was invented by Venkateswararao Jujjuri (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to storing database extents in physical storage nodes. To store the extents, a physical storage node of a computer system first accesses assignment metadata, which includes determining 1) virtual groupings of database extents assigned to the physical storage node and 2) database extents associated with the determined one or more virtual groupings. For a given database extent, a ...