ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,473, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Flexible system design pattern for distributed system" was invented by Wenqin Tang (Suzhou, China), Gang Wang (Suzhou, China) and Zhaoguo Jiang (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a target virtual compute resource configuration for provisioning a virtual compute resource. A provisioning system and method are described that abstract various provisioning requirements into different provisioning strategies. The provisioning strategies include logic that, when executed, determine target provisioning ...