US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 20 for "Bucket search metric based rebalancing across peers" (Australian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,406, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Bucket search metric based rebalancing across peers" was invented by Wendi Qiu (Norwest, Australia), Alastair Jeffrey Barnett (Canberra, Australia), Sayantan Bhattacharyya (The Ponds, Australia) and Iuri Chaer (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bucket search metric-based rebalancing across peers includes obtaining bucket search metrics of searches performed on buckets located on peer nodes. The bucket search metrics are aggregated on a per peer node basis to obtain an aggregated bucket search metric for each peer node. An average aggregated bucket ...