ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,762, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Affinity data system for data management" was invented by Mayank Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Aditi Bhattacharya (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method determines resource affinity for an application is provided. A number of processor units determine connections in affinity data for the workloads for an application. The number of processor units assign weights to the connections based on a number of hops for the connections. The weights indicate the affinity to components related to the set of workload...