US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 7 for "Distributed data access control and data storage method, metadata server, and client" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,923, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Distributed data access control and data storage method, metadata server, and client" was invented by Yi Jing (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage method includes a first client sending a first lock request for locking a first data range of a first file to a metadata server. The metadata server receives the first lock request from the first client. When the first data range of the first file is not locked, the metadata server locks the first data range of the first file and sends a first lock response to the first client ...