ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,025, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"System and method for throttling service requests having non-uniform workloads" was invented by Wei Xiao (Kirkland, Wash.), David Alan Lutz (Renton, Wash.), Timothy Andrew Rath (Des Moines, Wash.), Maximiliano Maccanti (Bellevue, Wash.), Miguel Mascarenhas Filipe (Seattle) and David Craig Yanacek (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that provides services to clients may receive and service requests, various ones of which may require different amounts of work. The system may determine whether it is operating in an overloaded or underloaded state b...