ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,209, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Distributed file access method and related device" was invented by Libo Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Hao Wang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed file access method and a related device, applied to a first electronic device, where the first electronic device is in communication connection to a second electronic device, the first electronic device stores metadata of a first file on the second electronic device, and the metadata includes a file modification type and a file modification tag. The method includes: receiving...