US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Oct. 27 for "Replica expansion methods, apparatuses, and systems for distributed graph database" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,633, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Replica expansion methods, apparatuses, and systems for distributed graph database" was invented by Xiaohua Yuan (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for distributed graph database replica expansion and performed by a second data storage data node to be expanded includes, in response to reception of graph data migration information, entering a data copy-only mode and initiating graph data migration from a first data storage node to obtain a data snapshot of a first graph data shard. Fo...