ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,844, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Beijing Oceanbase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"IO request scheduling methods and apparatuses" was invented by Jianyun Sun (Hangzhou, China) and Yuzhong Zhao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The specification provides an IO request scheduling method. The method includes: obtaining a target IO request to be scheduled, and determining whether the target IO request is a traffic-limited IO request: when the target IO request is a traffic-unlimited first-type IO request, determining a current moment as a scheduling moment of the target IO request: or when the target IO request is a ...