ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,009, issued on June 30, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Workload prioritization in a cloud environment" was invented by Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.), Sithiqu Shahul Hameed (Chennai, India) and Joseph LaSalle White (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards workload prioritization (ranking) in a cloud (e.g., private/hybrid) environment based on multi-criteria decision analysis using Mahalanobis distance-based variance-covariance matrix that takes into account the pair-wise correlation between criteria attributes from a dataset. The technology described h...