US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on July 1 for "Task processing method, apparatus, and system based on distributed system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,723, issued on July 1, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Task processing method, apparatus, and system based on distributed system" was invented by Zheng Fang (Hangzhou, China) and Shaowei Liu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task processing method, apparatus, and system based on a distributed system is described. The method comprises: obtaining, by a main process of a task processing device, task information from a master control device by initiating a task request, where the task information corresponding to the task request is stored in the master control device. Further, i...