ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,179, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Metadata on delta sharing tables" was invented by Johannes Alberti (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Rubens Luiz Rech Jr. (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, additional metadata is attached to a delta tables, via delta shares, in the form of a common schema notation (CSN) entity. When a request is received from a client for a share of a range of delta tables where the range comprises the delta table to which the additional metadata is attached, the most recent CSN entity for each of the delta tables in the range are aggregate...