US Patent Issued to Ng-Kwok Sing on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus for data processing and management in erasure-coded multi-cloud storage systems" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,180, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ng-Kwok Sing (Shatin, Hong Kong).

"Methods and apparatus for data processing and management in erasure-coded multi-cloud storage systems" was invented by Pak-Ching Lee (Shatin, Hong Kong), Hoi-Wan Chan (Shatin, Hong Kong), Shakeel Salamat Ullah (Shatin, Hong Kong) and Ng-Kwok Sing (Shatin, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage system includes one or multiple proxies, a metadata store, multiple agents, and multiple data repositories, which provisions storage space within a cloud or a cloud region from one or multiple cloud storage services. A proxy encodes data objects t...