US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Handling timeouts of client requests to a server" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,369, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Handling timeouts of client requests to a server" was invented by Anthony Philip Papageorgiou (Winchester, Great Britain), Ian Mark Hodges (Horton Heath, Great Britain) and Andrew Alan Armstrong (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer system for handling timeouts of client requests to a server. The method includes: accessing timeout metadata of a synchronous client request at a server queue; determining that the synchronous client request has a timeout risk; identifying a response storage location for a re...