US Patent Issued to Oracle International on May 13 for "Technique of reducing size of binary JSON with/without compression" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,940, issued on May 13, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Technique of reducing size of binary JSON with/without compression" was invented by Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Spiegel (St. Louis) and Douglas J. McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data structures and methods are described for converting a text format data-interchange file into size efficient binary representations. A method comprises receiving a request to convert a data-interchange file, comprising a hierarchy of nodes, into a binary file. The method further comprises generating a tree representation ...