ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,893, issued on March 4, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Ranking computing resources" was invented by Max Alt (San Francisco) and Gabriel Martin (Extremadura, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ranking computing resources in a distributed computing marketplace is disclosed. Ranking may be based on the performance factors that the system predicts will have the greatest impact on the particular application the user plans to run. A performance database stores historical performance data for applications that have been executed on multiple different computer systems. The databa...