ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,711, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Near zero downtime migration" was invented by Pruthviraj Manchenahalli Shivashankar (San Diego), Alexei Olkhovskii (Vista, Calif.), Szu-hsuan Lee (San Diego), Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya (Poway, Calif.) and Vincent Seguin (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for database switching. Specifically, a second database can be added as a standby candidate database to a node accessing a first database as a primary database. The data in the first database ...