US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 15 for "Granular replica healing for distributed databases" (Hungarian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,382, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Granular replica healing for distributed databases" was invented by Peter Matray (Budapest, Hungary), Daniel Gehberger (Montreal) and Gabor Nemeth (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A healing procedure is disclosed for distributed database. A storage node locally stores metadata for a plurality of data items stored in the distributed database. The metadata includes, for each data item, an identifier associated with the data item and an associated replica location list indicating one or more storage nodes in the distributed da...