US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on May 26 for "Spatially partitioned ideally chunked entity tree" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,373, issued on May 26, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Spatially partitioned ideally chunked entity tree" was invented by Paul Jerome Kwiatkowski (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a Spatially Partitioned Ideally Chunked Entity ("SPICE") tree data structure are provided herein. In an example, a computerized method for using a SPICE tree includes determining a document defined by a SPICE tree data structure and navigating to content within the document based on the SPICE tree data structure. The SPICE tree data structure includes a root chunk contai...