US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 7 for "Background maintenance task regulation and scheduling" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,323, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Background maintenance task regulation and scheduling" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel) and Maher Kachmar (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, techniques for resource regulation and scheduling can include: allocating a first amount of tokens denoting an amount of CPU resources available for executing background (BG) maintenance tasks; determining a distribution of the first amount of tokens among a plurality of CPU cores upon which BG maintenance tasks are allowed to execute; and scheduling, by a s...