ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,779, issued on June 10, was assigned to LiveRamp Inc. (San Francisco).
"Fault tolerant big data processing" was invented by Adam Zimmerman (Conway, Ark.), Pavan Marupally (Conway, Ark.) and Joseph Shannon Duncan (Conway, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving fault tolerance of MapReduce computing systems processing extremely large data sets employs a custom mapper script that outputs the results to the shuffle and reduce processes. The Reducer writes its results into multiple files that are then compressed. The resulting files are processed by a map-only Reducer job that aggregates and reduces the results of a si...