ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,493, issued on May 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for scheduling workflow on cloud platforms" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for scheduling a Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) workflow on a cloud platform. The method includes obtaining an input workflow including input media stream, generating a modified workflow by dividing the input media stream into one or more tasks, scheduling the one or more tasks on the cloud platform based on a schedule descriptor, which includes schedule type information and processing...