US Patent Issued to Citibank on July 14 for "Handling workload interruptions in cloud computing platforms" (British, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,754, issued on July 14, was assigned to Citibank N.A. (New York).

"Handling workload interruptions in cloud computing platforms" was invented by Mark Philpott (London), Dominic Burgan (London), Steven Readett (London), Krzysztof Jastrzebski (Warsaw, Poland) and Isaac Kilis (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for handling interrupts in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The system may include a controller process that receives an interrupt indicator from a worker process, signaling a potential interruption. The controller may determine if the worker process is expected to be halted and removed within a predetermin...