ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,189, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data management method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Yongxin Xu (Shenzhen, China), Quanan Han (Shenzhen, China), Furong Chen (Shenzhen, China), Feilong Liang (Shenzhen, China), Yuming Cui (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaojian Xia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management method includes: receiving a node access request for a target storage node, and acquiring a target storage node primary key of the target storage node; traversing a connection mapping table based on the target storage node pri...