US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Feb. 17 for "Phased server reservation with a server level allocation and an allotment level allocation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,546, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Phased server reservation with a server level allocation and an allotment level allocation" was invented by Yan Cui (Newark, Calif.), Zhoutong Jiang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiang Li (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of resource allocation is disclosed. A request from a user to allocate computing resources for specified compute processing is received. A server level allocation is performed, including by determining a full server reservation estimate corresponding to the request, wherein the full server reservation estimate com...