ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,176, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Network key value indexing design" was invented by Somnath Roy (San Jose, Calif.) and Ronald Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of indexing in a network key value indexing system. The method includes retrieving a first key name from a storage device of the network key value indexing system, the first key name identifying a first prefix, a first bucket, and a first key, the first prefix indicating the first bucket, parsing the first key name into the first prefix, the first bucket, and the first key, de...