ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,032, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method, apparatus, device and medium based on distributed storage" was invented by Qucheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Maocai Li (Shenzhen, China), Zongyou Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hu Lan (Shenzhen, China), Kaiban Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Li Kong (Shenzhen, China), Pan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Gengliang Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Yifang Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes: detecting, when writing first block data into a local cache and a local storage, a first block processing space of a stor...