ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,013, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Dynamically adapting task execution parallelism of distributed applications" was invented by Michael Kaufmann (Adliswil, Switzerland), Radu Ioan Stoica (Zurich), Pascal Sporri (Winterthur, Switzerland), Torsten Steinbach (Holzgerlingen, Germany) and Shrinivas Kulkarni (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scheduling tasks for concurrent execution in parallel is provided. Metrics corresponding to execution of tasks in a plurality of stages of a distributed application are received from a set of worker nodes. An analysis of the met...