ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,774, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Graph data loading" was invented by Xintan Zeng (Hangzhou, China), Guowei Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Yongchao Liu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide a graph data loading method and apparatus. In the graph data loading method, in response to obtaining to-be-loaded graph data from the outside, a lock is obtained for the to-be-loaded graph data. A graph data loading identifier of the to-be-loaded graph data is determined based on a graph data loading identifier of previous ...