ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,332, issued on July 7, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Resource scheduling method and server based on idle time point" was invented by Meng Wang (Beijing), Pengyu Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.), Yunshan Jia (Beijing) and Biyi Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource scheduling method and a server are provided, the method including: acquiring, at target scheduling time, an idle time point corresponding to respective virtual network element of the multiple virtual network elements, wherein the idle time point corresponds to a time point at which no load task is polled by a worker thread in the virtual ...