US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Aug. 25 for "Data migration of search indexes across search-engine deployments" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,855, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Data migration of search indexes across search-engine deployments" was invented by Sandeep Patwardhan (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques to facilitate data migration by transferring data across search indexes of differing search-engine deployments. The techniques include obtaining a first search index of a first search-engine deployment and causing, by a backup tool of the first search-engine deployment, production of a backup of the first search index. The techniques also include causi...