US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 29 for "Snapshot advancement for database systems" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,746, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Snapshot advancement for database systems" was invented by Jacob Jonghan Park (Toronto), Benjamin Busjaeger (San Carlos, Calif.) and Atish Agrawal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing contention and improving transaction efficiency in distributed database systems through snapshot advancement. A system receives a query defining a first database transaction associated with a first snapshot of a database, where the transaction includes reading and updating a database value. The system evaluates the query against predefine...