ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,088, issued on Dec. 16.
"Staged resource querying" was invented by Steven Spungin (Marblehead, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method for staged resource querying addresses limitations of traditional file systems, which provide a flexible, scalable framework for organizing, managing, and querying diverse digital resources across multiple providers. The method receives a query specifying a sequence of stage types, each defining processing and grouping of items. It executes operations to process input items through these stages, creating a dynamic graph structure of grouped output items. This incl...