ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,633, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Weighted auto-sharding" was invented by Alexander Shraer (Stanford, Calif.), Kfir Lev-Ari (Kfar Saba, Israel), Arif Abdulhusein Merchant (Los Altos, Calif.), Vishesh Khemani (Seattle) and Atul Adya (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for automatic sharding and load balancing in a distributed data processing system. In one aspect, a method includes determining workload distribution for an application across worker computers and in response to determining a load balancing operation is required: selecting a first ...