ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,443, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Method and apparatus for processing data, reduction server, and mapping server" was invented by Hua Xu (Hangzhou, China), Xiaoming Bao (Beijing), Hongwei Sun (Beijing), Yihai Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Chun Liu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for processing data are provided. In an implementation, a method comprising: obtaining, by a reduction server of a plurality of reduction servers in a distributed processing system and from a first storage area, metadata of first data to be read, wherein the first dat...