ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,628, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data migration method and apparatus, device, distributed system and storage medium" was invented by Yanxin Luo (Zhejiang, China), Feifei Li (Zhejiang, China) and Wei Cao (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data migration method and apparatus, a device, a distributed system and a storage medium are provided. Said method is applied to each data node in a distributed system comprising a plurality of data nodes. Said method comprises: determining, in a current data migration task, a table to be migrated of a current node, and a targ...