Patent ID: 11934378
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
capturing, by one or more processors, a change to a record object, wherein the change includes details of the record object to be changed and a change method instruction by which the record object is to be changed, wherein the record object is immutable;
storing, by one or more processors, a change object as a standalone object including the change method instruction, a description of a reason for the change, and metadata pointing to the record object;
modifying, by one or more processors, metadata of all previous versions of the record object to include a pointer to the change object; and
applying, by one or more processors, the change method instruction to the record object when responding to a retrieve or restore request for the record object.