ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,095, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Hierarchal data structure modification" was invented by Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.), Douglas Ray Cosby (Austin, Texas) and James Charles McCausland (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for modifying hierarchal-structured data of one hierarchal data structure based on a modification to another hierarchal data structure are disclosed. A system determines that a modification has been made, or is requested to be made, to a particular hierarchal data structure. The system analyzes a set of rules to determine whether the mo...