Teradata Assigned Patent

Teradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH, has been assigned a patent (9,665,431) developed by Boggs, Gary Lee, San Diego, CA, for a “interrupted write protection with generic storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method providing interrupted write protection to a stand-alone commodity storage array utilized within a database system. The method identifies writes of data from the database system to the storage array requiring interrupt protection, and for each write, generates an entry for an intent log maintained within the database system. The log entries include a write identifier, storage device information associated with a write, and a write statues indication which are used to identify failed writes following a database system failure.“

The patent application was filed on December 15, 2014 (14/570,280).