ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,042, issued on May 13, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Graph data management" was invented by Xiaowei Zhu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is applied to a graph database, the graph database stores edge data of a timing graph, the edge data records a plurality of attributes of an edge in the timing graph, the plurality of attributes include a timestamp, an index of the edge data includes a primary index and a secondary index, a value of the primary index is the timestamp, the secondary index stores the plurality of attributes, and a key of the secondary inde...