ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,813, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Quota-based resource scheduling" was invented by Priyanka Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Sean Quinlan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Lawrence E. Greenfield (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to dynamically scheduling resource requests in a distributed system based on usage quotas. One example method includes identifying usage information for a distributed system including atoms, each atom representing a distinct item used by users of the distributed system; determining that a usage quota associated with the distributed system ha...