Patent ID: 11960616
Assignee: MOLECULA CORP.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
maintaining, by a computer system, a portion of a virtual data source (VDS) that is based on a corresponding origin, wherein the VDS is distributed among a plurality of computer systems that includes the computer system, and wherein the portion of the VDS includes:
a portion of a bitmap index that is representative of particular data stored at the origin;
translation metadata that is usable to interpret the bitmap index; and
ingestion metadata that specifies a location of the origin and a set of ingest parameters for configuring an ingestion routine to ingest, into the portion of the bitmap index, updates made to the particular data stored at the origin;

based on a particular update to the portion of the bitmap index, computer system:
applying a set of changes to the translation metadata so that the translation metadata is usable to interpret the particular update; and
propagating the set of changes to one or more remaining computer systems of the plurality of computer systems; and

servicing, by the computer system, a request by executing a query against the VDS and not the origin.