Alibaba Group had 331 patents in digitalization during Q4 2023. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd filed a patent for an application management method for serverless computing, involving collecting objects, generating a base tree, rearranging application examples, and merging them. Another patent involves a storage record engine on a storage system, organizing storage into superblocks and chunks with metadata, recording modifications in a transaction log for data recovery following system failure. The replay functionality improves responsiveness by interleaving transaction log records with checkpoint metadata. GlobalData’s report on Alibaba Group gives a 360-degreee view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Alibaba Group grant share with digitalization as a theme is 77% in Q4 2023. Grant share is based on the ratio of number of grants to total number of patents.
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Application: Application management method and apparatus (Patent ID: US20230394020A1)
The patent filed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. describes an application management method for serverless computing. The method involves collecting objects in an application example, generating a base tree based on the hierarchical relationship of these objects, rearranging memory objects in multiple application examples according to the base tree, and merging the rearranged application examples. Additional operations include cold-starting application examples, garbage recovery, and releasing temporary objects.
Furthermore, the method includes steps such as collecting surviving objects in the heap, rearranging data in internal memory based on the base tree, performing memory labeling and sharing, class data sharing, frame recovery, and handling application groups. The patent also covers operations for restoring application examples to a full flow receivable state, snapshotting for restoration, and horizontal expansion by distributing snapshots across machines. The apparatus for application management and the non-transitory computer-readable medium store instructions for executing these operations, emphasizing the efficient management of serverless computing applications.
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