US Patent Issued to WORKDAY on June 2 for "Measuring and enforcing API usage in a multi-tenant computing environment" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,331, issued on June 2, was assigned to WORKDAY INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Measuring and enforcing API usage in a multi-tenant computing environment" was invented by Matthew Banks (Livermore, Calif.) and Niall Tierney (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, at an API gateway, an API request from an API client; extracting, by the API gateway, a client identity associated with the API request; checking, by the API gateway, API Level Objectives (ALOs) associated with the client identity, the ALOs defining acceptable usage limits for the clien...