The Oracle OpenWorld 2019 conference will be held in San Francisco from September 16-19, 2019. To commemorate Oracle OpenWorld, the blog will highlight a recently-issued Oracle, Inc. patent.
U.S. Patent No. 10,360,269 B2 (‘269), issued on July 23, 2019, for “Proxy databases.” The inventor is Thomas Baby of Auburn, Washington. The applicant and assignee is Oracle International Corp., of Redwood Shores, California, the B2B database software and cloud computing systems company. The ‘269 specification describes various embodiments for a proxy database environment. Container databases contain multiple databases controlled by a server. The pluggable database are subset databases of the containers. The proxy database is used in conjunction with the pluggable database to assist with resource management, transport transparency, and database query optimization. These appear to be the novelty aspects of the claimed invention. The claims are directed to the method of creating a proxy database through transportation of a pluggable database from one container database to another.
Figure 1 illustrates the claimed method:
The International Patent Classifications are G06F (electric digital data processing (computer systems based on specific computational models), namely, details of database functions independent of retrieved data types, namely, retrieval from web, including indexing and Web crawling techniques (16/951); updates for security arrangements (8/65); relational data, namely, design and administration of maintenance of databases (16/21); and integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems between a database management system and front-end application (16/252).