ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,028, issued on July 14, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and related apparatus" was invented by Zhihua Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Peng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a data processing method. In a content delivery network including a first terminal device, a second terminal device, and a resource server, the resource server is configured to store and provide a content packet. The method includes acquiring a content packet of first target content from a resource server, the resource server being a server in the content delivery netwo...