ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,128, issued on June 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and electronic device" was invented by Jie Qiu (Hangzhou, China), Wei Fang (Hangzhou, China), Xie Miao (Hangzhou, China) and Jing Qian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data processing method, an electronic device detects that a first file and a second file are duplicate files, with a first index node of the first file pointing to file data of the first file, and a second index node of the second file pointing to file data of the second file. The electronic device generates a target index node and configures th...