ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,442, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Ad-hoc proxy for batch processing task" was invented by Tareq Al-Maamari (Boeblingen, Germany), Klaus Rindtorff (Boblingen, Germany), Andreas Arning (Boeblingen, Germany), Heinz Peter Hippenstiel (Boeblingen, Germany) and Raiko Nitzsche (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ad-hoc proxy for a batch processing task within a cloud environment. The proxy may reduce overhead that results from authentication between a jobs of the processing task and a third-party service. An example operation may include one or more ...