ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,164, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Data storage and querying" was invented by Songqing Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jin Jiang (Hangzhou, China), Zhijun Fu (Hangzhou, China), Bingpeng Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Lin Yuan (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and systems for data storage and data query are described. During data storage, the number of neighboring graph nodes in each starting graph node in directed graph graph data to be stored is determined, and a data storage mode is determined according to the number ...