US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on July 22 for "System and method to assure data quality in distributed data collection pipeline" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,542, issued on July 22, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"System and method to assure data quality in distributed data collection pipeline" was invented by Shuangjiang Li (Fremont, Calif.), Shi Zhao (Fremont, Calif.), Miao Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hui Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jiayao Hu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrity of an end-to-end message sent from a source to a destination in a distributed data pipeline is improved by tracking the number of messages sent to and received by each of the intermediate components and sink components of the pipeline as the mes...