US Patent Issued to SAP on Oct. 20 for "Stream-based transaction processing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,720, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Stream-based transaction processing" was invented by Norman May (Baden Wurttemberg, Germany), Tiemo Bang (Bad Camberg, Germany) and Carsten Binnig (Baden Wurttembreg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction processing protocol for serverless database management systems can use a transaction scheduler to guarantee consistent serializable execution though analysis of the access pattern of transaction types and appropriate ordering of the transaction's events at runtime. A transaction topology is determined for each type of transaction and these are combin...