US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Data locality for big data on Kubernetes" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,643, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data locality for big data on Kubernetes" was invented by Rui Wang (Beijing), Jing Bo Jiang (Beijing), Yi Ming Wang (Xi'An, China) and Yan Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controlling data locality in a Kubernetes computing environment by establishing a Kubernetes computing environment including a controller and at least one executor pod for running an application, and receiving a request for a task to be run in the Kubernetes computing environment. The controller dispatches a sidecar to collect resource data from the at least on...