ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,174, issued on April 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Label propagation in a distributed system" was invented by Matthew H. Austern (Palo Alto, Calif.), James C. Dehnert (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aart J. c. Bik (Union City, Calif.), Grzegorz J. Czajkowski (Mountain View, Calif.) and Grzegorz Malewicz (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a graph. The graph represents relationships among items. The graph has a plurality of vertices that represent the items and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of vertices. At least one vertex...