ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,883, issued on May 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Quorum-based scalable database system" was invented by Patrick James Helland (San Rafael, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to a database system. The database system includes multiple coordinator nodes storing replicas of a partition. Each partition describes the state of locks and transactions for keys covered by that partition of keys. Each partition is, in turn, replicated. The multiple coordinator nodes receive, from multiple worker nodes, requests to grant a lock for a key to permit a worker node to write a record for th...