US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Feb. 24 for "System and method for global rate limiting" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,041, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for global rate limiting" was invented by Daeki Cho (Bellevue, Wash.), Ran Yao (San Francisco), Xiaoyuan Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.), Alekhaya Kondapuram (San Francisco), Tony Wong (San Francisco), Pratima Nambiar (San Francisco) and Rama Chavali (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing global rate limiting of an API cluster capable of dynamically implementing updates without a restart of any instantiation within the API cluster. A local service incl...