ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,179, issued on June 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Supporting partial JSON update in replication environment" was invented by Alfonso Colunga Sosa (Redwood City, Calif.), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Ying Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yuhong Gu (Nashua, N.H.), Fernando Gutierrez Mendez (Zapopan, Mexico), Douglas James McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.), Mahesh Subramaniam (Foster City, Calif.) and Michael Cusson (Woburn, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for replicating changes to JSON objects uses "piecewise replication". In piecewise replication, a piecewise update to a JSON obje...