US Patent Issued to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology on Oct. 21 for "Data storage method and data storage apparatus for string data" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,264, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data storage method and data storage apparatus for string data" was invented by Zhitao Shen (Zhejiang, China), Jiujing Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Lingkai Meng (Zhejiang, China), Shiyu Yang (Zhejiang, China) and Wei Jia (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage method for string data includes: performing pattern matching on each piece of string data in a to-be-stored string data set by using a pattern data set, to determine whether the string data includes matched pattern data in the pattern data set; in res...