US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on July 29 for "Method and system for in-memory metadata reduction in cloud storage system" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,337, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Method and system for in-memory metadata reduction in cloud storage system" was invented by Yu Du (Hangzhou, China), Rui Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Peng Xu (Milpitas, Calif.) and Yikang Xu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for in-memory metadata reduction in cloud storage system are provided. According to an aspect, a method comprises receiving a first command to write a data stream to a storage device; writing the data stream into a plurality of fragments having logical addresses corresponding to physical ...