US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Aug. 11 for "Prioritization of dependent tasks based on error rates" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,097, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Prioritization of dependent tasks based on error rates" was invented by Nestor Acuna Blanco (Stuttgart, Germany) and Radu Marinescu (Castleknock, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dependent task prioritization is disclosed. The method comprises providing base data comprising task identifiers, failure values and dependency data values, where each dependency data value is associated with a pair of tasks. The method comprises also generating a probabilistic model, using a directed acyclic graph, where each task is associated ...