Delegated authorization for consumers of shared databases

US12417305B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Vladimir Ponomarenko · Redwood City, US
• Jingyi Qing · Newcastle, US
• Eric Ray Hotinger · Redmond, US
• William Michael McCreedy · Berlin, DE
• Ippokratis Pandis · Menlo, US
• Pavel Sokolov · Redondo Beach, US
• Mengyang Li · San Jose, US
• Weihang Song · Bothell, US
• Vivek Ramamoorthy · Sammamish, US
• Neeraja Rentachintala · San Jose, US
• Mohammad Foyzur Rahman · San Mateo, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 2021
• Grant date: Sep 16, 2025
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/252
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for delegation of authorization management of a shared database of a database service is described. The database service includes a control plane and a producer database engine. The producer database engine receives a creation request to create a datashare for a database. The creation request delegates, to a data exchange service, authorization management to access the datashare. The control plane is configured to update permission data for the datashare to indicate that authorization to the datashare is managed by the data exchange service. The producer database engine is further configured to receive a request, from a consumer database engine, to obtain metadata used to perform a query to the database of the datashare, determine that the data exchange service authorized the consumer database engine to access the datashare based on the permission data for the datashare, and return the metadata to the consumer database engine.