US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies, University of Science and Technology of China on Sept. 29 for "Key-value pair retrieval method and apparatus, and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,740, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China) and University of Science and Technology of China (Hefei, China).

"Key-value pair retrieval method and apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yun Xu (Hefei, China), Pengcheng Wang (Nanjing, China), Fei Chen (Nanjing, China), Long Yan (Nanjing, China) and Lei Han (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key is divided into a plurality of key fields. Then, a corresponding first bit is determined from a bitmap top (BT) based on a first key field in a front part. Finally, a target bitmap bottom (BB) is determined, based on a second k...