ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,428, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Jive Software LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Stream engine using compressed bitsets" was invented by Jonathan Colt (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described for storing and reporting user activities within a computing environment. For example, bitsets (e.g., compressed and/or uncompressed bitsets) can be used to store activities (e.g., where each activity is a bit in the bitset in chronological order). Separate bitsets can be maintained for followable aspects of the activities (e.g., a separate bitset for each unique followable). Activity streams can be prod...