ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,562, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and related apparatus" was invented by Lei Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Jun Cao (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a data processing method. The method includes: A backup server receives a metadata obtaining command, where the metadata obtaining command is used to obtain file system metadata in a first format, and the command includes an identifier of a to-be-read target directory. The backup server obtains, from a metadata storage area of an archive storage based on the identifier of the ...