ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,734, issued on July 8, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Cayman Islands).
"Using object properties for facilitating object storage" was invented by Peng Xu (Milpitas, Calif.), Yikang Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Rui Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Yu Du (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage engine may obtain one or more object access properties of an object to be received, and determine a type of storage device that is suitable or desirable for storing the object from among different types of storage devices based at least in part on the one or more object access properties of the object to be received. In response to ...