US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on June 16 for "Method and system for secure scheduling of workflows and virtual machine utilization in cloud" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,061, issued on June 16, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for secure scheduling of workflows and virtual machine utilization in cloud" was invented by Shubhro Shovan Roy (Kolkata, India), Arun Ramamurthy (Pune, India), Mangesh Sharad Gharote (Pune, India) and Sachin Premsukh Lodha (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scheduling of tasks in workflow comprises of heterogeneous and interdependent computational tasks. The method receives a set of workflows comprising of one or more heterogeneous tasks. Further, a set of parameters are extracted from each heterogeneous task to select...