US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 17 for "Network load balancing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,981, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network load balancing" was invented by Weibing Zhang (Beijing), Victor Lei Gao (Beijing) and Donglei Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology relates to load balancing. An example method includes determining, in response to a difference between resource consumption of a first node in a group of nodes and resource consumption of another node in the group of nodes exceeding a first threshold, whether a proportion difference between a proportion of compressed data in I/O data of the first node and a proportion of compressed data ...