ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,863, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Converting an API into a graph API" was invented by Ralf Handl (Heidelberg, Germany) and Robert Witt (Walldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for transforming an operation-centric API into a graph-based API. In one example, a method may include receiving a description of an application programming interface (API), translating the description into a proxy model that comprises a list of a plurality of operations performed by the API, executing one or more heuristic programs on the proxy model to determine a plurality of entiti...