Alibaba Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (8,953,602) developed by Yang, Jinsheng, Pan, Lei, and Tang, Zhengrong, Zhejiang, China, for a “network data storing system and data accessing method.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present disclosure provides a network data storage system and a network data access method. The disclosed network data storage system includes: a data node, used for storing a data unit, a metadata node, used for storing and managing routing information and providing the routing information according to a data processing request of a client, and a data management node, used for processing the requested data unit in the data node according to a data access request of the client. The disclosed system and method may improve access performance of network data, enhance expansibility of a system, and lower expansion cost.“

The patent application was filed on August 27, 2007 (12/447,036).