ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,743, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cloud Intelligence Assets Holding (Singapore) Private Ltd. (Singapore).

"Data processing method and apparatus" was invented by Feng Zhang (Shanghai), Li Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Qiangqiang Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method and apparatus are disclosed, wherein the data processing method is applied to a metadata management node in a distributed file system, including: determining a directory level of metadata to be processed in a directory tree, and assigning an array identifier to the metadata to be processed based on the directory level; and constructing a met...