US Patent Issued to QNAP Systems on June 16 for "Index node allocation method, data processing device and computer-readable medium" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,159, issued on June 16, was assigned to QNAP Systems Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Index node allocation method, data processing device and computer-readable medium" was invented by Tsu-Yu Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An index node (inode) allocation method, a corresponding data processing device and a corresponding computer-readable medium are provided. The method is applicable to a file system and includes the following steps: allocating a range including a plurality of consecutive inodes to a directory in the file system when a directory order mode is already activated, wherein files in the directo...