ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,403, issued on April 15, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Data processing method and apparatus, computer device, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Xiaoyu Yu (Shenzhen, China), Dewei Chen (Shenzhen, China), Feng Han (Shenzhen, China) and Jiaxin Li (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: acquiring a data sorting request for a data sequence to be sorted, and invoking C data bitonic sorting components in response to the data sorting request, C being a positive integer greater than 1; initiating B data bitonic sorting tasks according to the data s...