MUMBAI, India, Aug. 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647091783 A) filed by Google LLC on July 29, 2026, for Transaction Id Accelerator For Efficient Garbage Collection Of Old Versions.
Inventor includes Eluri, Amarnadh Sai.
The application for the patent was published on July 31, 2026, under issue no. 31/2026.
Abstract: A method (400) for efficient garbage collection includes obtaining a request (20) to perform garbage collection on a target table (152). The target table includes a plurality of pages (162). The method includes determining, based on the request, a garbage collection transaction identifier (ID) (22) specifying a global minimum transaction ID for garbage collection. For each respective page of a first set of pages, the method includes retrieving, from a page transaction ID table (154), a respective page minimum transaction ID (174) corresponding to the respective page. The page transaction ID table is different from the target table. The method also includes determining that the respective page minimum transaction ID is greater than the global minimum transaction ID and, based on determining that the respective page minimum transaction ID is greater than the global minimum transaction ID, skipping garbage collection of the respective page without accessing the respective page.
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