US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 4 for "Soft capacity constraints for storage assignment in a distributed environment" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,519, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Soft capacity constraints for storage assignment in a distributed environment" was invented by Alan Pearson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for balancing data storage among a plurality of groups of computing devices, each group comprising one or more respective computing devices, each group having an available storage capacity. The method may involve, for each group of computing devices, determining an amount of used storage at the group of computing devices exceeding a predefined first threshold value that is less than the availabl...