US Patent Issued to Dropbox on June 17 for "Directed acyclic graph framework for executing search function operations" (California, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,882, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Directed acyclic graph framework for executing search function operations" was invented by Harrison Engel (El Paso, Texas), Ivan Traus (San Francisco), Jongmin Baek (Foster City, Calif.) and Sarah Andrabi (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for performing a data search for a search request by utilizing a directed acyclic graph. For example, the disclosed systems receive a search request at a search engine of a content management system. In addition, the discl...