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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Kevin M. Charles, Bentonville, AR (US);
Richard T. Jackson, Bentonville, AR (US);
John Randy Frerking, Bentonville, AR (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A system and method for producing a new globally-unique identifier (GUID) format that may be used, for instance, to uniquely identify a number of different items in a distributed computer system, such as transactions in an e-commerce system, sessions in a cloud-based computing system, and identifiers for unique customers in an ecommerce system, among others. The unique ID may have one of a number of different formats that may be generated upon receiving a request for an ID. For instance, the GUID may be generated in a plain hex format, a GUID format, ESS, and B64B (Base64Binaty) format. The new format may be generated based on information relating to a site ID, an absolute time, and a sequential counter, that ensures that no two GUIDs are the same. Further, the system may be capable of issuing multiple GUIDs within a single command, such as may be required to generate an array of GUIDs.