Sybase Assigned Patent

Sybase, Inc., Dublin, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,990,157) developed by Zhou, Ping, Shanghai, China, and Shepherd, Stephen, Lakewood, CO, for a “replication support for structured data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method, system and computer readable storage medium for replicating structured data stored in a database. The method includes identifying the stored structured data, mapping the data to an unstructured data type, and sending the mapped data to one or more replicate databases as unstructured data.“

The patent application was filed on November 18, 2011 (13/299,931).