ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,816, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Schema-driven distributed data processing" was invented by Kasturi Chatterjee (Redwood City, Calif.), Justin Cunningham (Orlando, Fla.), Wei Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Prashanth Ramdas (Saratoga, Calif.), Vinod Viswanathan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Chunyun Zhao (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing schema-driven data processing. The technique includes detecting a first change to a first producer schema for a first dataset produced by a first data processor. The technique also...