US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Load balancing using a quality of service policy" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,897, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Load balancing using a quality of service policy" was invented by Salvatore Pasquale DeDona (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.) and Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for load balancing using a quality of service policy. The techniques include identifying, in response to receiving a client request at a load balancer that distributes client requests to compute resources located in a computing environment, a quality of service (QoS) policy that corresponds to the client request, where the QoS po...