US Patent Issued to SAP on April 7 for "Managing state of distributed cloud environment in peer-to-peer network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,586, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Managing state of distributed cloud environment in peer-to-peer network" was invented by Jannick Stephan Fahlbusch (Berlin) and Joachim Goennheimer (Walldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, rather than use a traditional database or datastore, or an ETCD database, to store the state of a cloud infrastructure management and orchestration system, a peer-to-peer network is used. The complete state of the cluster is available at every node. Nodes that are newly added to the system will fetch the current state from existing nodes. If the ...