EMC Assigned Patent

EMC Corp., Hopkinton, MA, has been assigned a patent (8,166,008) developed by Alex Rankov, Danville, CA, Meir Amiel, Pleasanton, CA, and Oleg Bivol, Toronto, Canada, for "processing of a generalized directed object graph for storage in a relational database."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Creating transaction instructions is disclosed. A description of a set of objects is received. For each of at least a subset of objects in the set of objects, a description of one or more associated relationships is received. The description of the set of objects and the descriptions of the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects are processed to create an ordered list of transaction instructions for storing the set of objects and the one or more associated relationships for each object in the at least a subset of the set of objects."

The patent application was filed on April 27, 2011 (13/095,143).