ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,317, issued on May 19, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).
"Priority-based production load balancing" was invented by Michael J. Strein (Bohemia, N.Y.), Ryan N. McCormick (Blauvelt, N.Y.) and Benjamin H. Kepler (Palisades, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a load balancer including a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive production data describing a media workflow, determine, using the production data, a priority status of the media workflow, identify production resource...