ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,847, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Addressing method, addressing system, and addressing apparatus" was invented by Zhefeng Yan (Shenzhen, China), Huimin Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Chang Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An addressing method, an addressing system, and an addressing apparatus are provided. The addressing method includes: a requesting node obtains routing information of a distributed storage network, where the distributed storage network includes one or more fixed nodes, the routing information includes one or more content identifiers, a communica...