ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,989, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Distributed database system and data processing method" was invented by Mengshi Sun (Hangzhou, China), Jianghang Lou (Hangzhou, China), Yu Fu (Hangzhou, China) and Xueqiang Wu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed database system includes: a computing module configured to receive a transaction starting request; determine a target transaction and a target storage module corresponding to the target transaction based on the transaction starting request; send an execution instruction to a target storage module; send a...