US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Processing data in a data format with key-value pairs" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,407, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing data in a data format with key-value pairs" was invented by Ke Du (Xi'An, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for processing data in a data format with key-value pairs. All keys can be extracted from a plurality of data objects of the data. Duplicated keys can be removed such that only one of the same keys remains. The data in the data format can be reorganized into a format with a key portion followed by a value portion. The extracte...