US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 17 for "Computing similarity of tree data structures using metric functions defined on sets" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,861, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Computing similarity of tree data structures using metric functions defined on sets" was invented by Eugene Perkov (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments facilitate efficient comparison operations of tree structures, resulting in comparison metrics (e.g., similarity or distance metrics or scores) used enhance software systems, such as search algorithms, code optimization software, enterprise database applications, and so on. Trees to be compared are converted into sets, i.e., serialized using a novel enumeratio...