US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on Feb. 17 for "Using resource counters to limit resource usage monopolization" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,537, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Using resource counters to limit resource usage monopolization" was invented by Alexander Jozef Hubertus Verdonschot (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing resource may be monopolized or dominated by a client, if the client has a large quantity of tasks for execution and/or the tasks from that client take a long time to execute. In some embodiments, each client is associated with a respective counter, and the counter is indicative of how much the computing resource has been recently occupied by the client associated with that counter. In some embodiments, the...