ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,296, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for performing network accelerated scheduling" was invented by Sreeharsha Udayashankar (Waterloo, Canada), Samer Al-Kiswany (Waterloo, Canada), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for performing network accelerated scheduling. In one aspect, a method may receive, at a programmable switch comprising a scheduler, a job comprising a plurality of tasks from a client. The method may store, on the programmable switch, the ...