US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 9 for "Supporting piecewise update of JSON document efficiently" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,025, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Supporting piecewise update of JSON document efficiently" was invented by Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Douglas James McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.) and Joshua Jeffrey Spiegel (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein are fine grained updates to pieces of JavaScript object notation (JSON) documents by database statements that can update, delete, and insert parts of JSON documents. In an embodiment, a computer receives a request that specifies a modification of a JSON document that...