ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,154, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"System and method using metadata to directly read target data in storage nodes" was invented by Ren Ren (Shanghai), Pingjing Guo (Shanghai), Junjie Yang (Shanghai) and Lijie Ye (Chengdu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage system, an intelligent network interface card, and a compute node are provided, and belong to the field of data storage. The data storage system includes a compute node and a plurality of storage nodes. The compute node stores metadata, and the metadata may indicate an address at which target data is stored in t...