ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,969, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Graph data partitioning" was invented by Wei Qin (Hangzhou, China), Jiping Yu (Hangzhou, China), Xiaowei Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Wenguang Chen (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification disclose graph data partition computer-implemented methods, non-transitory, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented systems. A computer-implemented method includes partitioning vertices in graph data into a plurality of dataset. Edges in the graph data are partitioned into datasets that include ...