ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,664, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data reading method and terminal" was invented by Yongbing Huang (Beijing), Tao Huang (Beijing) and Tingqiu Yuan (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data reading operation, a first terminal in a distributed storage system obtains a first data identifier, which is a unique identifier of first data in the distributed storage system. The first terminal determines, based on the first data identifier, whether first data is local data. When the first data is not local data, the first terminal obtains a first identifier that uniquely i...