ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,621, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Scheduling tasks at dynamically-allocated resource pools using share identifiers and fairness parameters" was invented by Aswin Damodar (Seattle), Stephen William Kendrex (Seattle), Xu Yang (Seattle), Gopal Shukla (Seattle), Jason Roy Rupard (Renton, Wash.), Cheng-Hao Lee (Seattle) and Ujjwal Kamal Kabra (Everett, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scheduling iteration with respect to a resource pool and a queue of tasks is conducted. Each task has a share identifier. A set of currently-in-use share identifiers is identified from the queued and running...