ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,324, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Traffic control method and apparatus" was invented by Xianjun He (Chengdu, China), Bowei Yu (Chengdu, China) and Zhaojiao Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic control method includes: receiving a first input/output (I/O) request sent by a first client device in a plurality of client devices, where the first I/O request is for accessing a first hard disk in a plurality of hard disks configured for the server device; and processing, by the server device, the first I/O request by using a first buffer region in a plurality of ...