US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Computer-based provisioning of cloud resources" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,260, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based provisioning of cloud resources" was invented by Saurabh Jha (White Plains, N.Y.), Larisa Shwartz (Greenwich, Conn.) and Frank Bagehorn (Dottikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve enhancing the provisioning cloud resources, embodiments receive a set of potential cloud resource providers and predict a performance for a distributed workload on each potential provider of the set according to a machine learning model. Additionally, embodiments inject fault into the set of potential cloud reso...