ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,233, issued on July 21, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Construction of point-in-time graph for analytics queries" was invented by Hongjiang Zhang (Shanghai), Xubin Chen (Shanghai) and Jun Li (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a point-in-time global consistent graph is described. The method includes accessing a stream of data from a transactional graph database, receiving, at a scalable persistent computational platform that is separate from the transactional graph database, a graph analytics query that indicates a time attribute value, in response to receiving the graph ana...