US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Egress link safety for large uncontrollable workloads in a computing infrastructure" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,797, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Egress link safety for large uncontrollable workloads in a computing infrastructure" was invented by Utkarsh Goel (Playa Del Rey, Calif.), Peter B. Chave (Andover, Mass.), Philip A. Lisiecki (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Igor B. Lubashev (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud provider implements a safety mechanism for links associated with its infrastructure. Link safety is achieved by changing how server and network capacity information is shared by the cloud provider with a customer entity that utilizes the infrastructure. To thi...