ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,102, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Distributed storage method and device" was invented by Yong Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Yicong Cai (Shenzhen, China) and Ajith Raj Shetty S (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage method includes offline merging, by a first thread service of a distributed storage system, M small files in a file system; generating, by the first thread service, M pieces of metadata in the offline merging process; loading, by a second thread service of the distributed storage system, the M pieces of metadata into a metadata set; search...