ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,196, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Distributed data processing" was invented by Wei Qin (Hangzhou, China), Jiping Yu (Hangzhou, China), Xiaowei Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Wenguang Chen (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this specification provide distributed data processing methods, apparatuses, and devices. One method includes: determining an active vertex set that currently participates in data processing in target graph data, in response to determining that an external memory of a first distributed node stores an active vertex in ...