ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,701, issued on May 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Server selection for reducing latency with a service instance" was invented by Zhengye Liu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yali Liu (Dublin, Calif.), Jin Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Raghvendra Savoor (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Server selection for improving latency with an instance of a service is disclosed. Generally, lower core latency is preferable. Core latencies can be related to a physical distance between endpoints connected via a communication pathway, such as a first server and second server connected via network equipment. A ge...