ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,926, issued on July 14, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).
"Processing group-by operations in databases" was invented by Yongchuan Niu (Beijing), Dong Yin (Beijing), Haohao Qian (Beijing), Xu He (Beijing), Li Wang (Beijing) and Qiang Yan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves methods, apparatus, and systems for processing group-by operations in databases. In one example, a method includes receiving a query to perform a group-by operation based on first attributes and second attributes of a plurality of entities. The first attributes are private data owned by a first ...