US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on July 14 for "Lock management method, apparatus, and system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,904, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lock management method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Zhijian Liao (Chengdu, China) and Bowei Yu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatuses, and distributed systems are provided. An example method includes acquiring, by a network interface card of a serving device, a lock acquisition request of a client. The lock acquisition request requests to acquire access permission for a shared resource. The example method further includes determining, by the network interface card based on recorded lock information,...