US Patent Issued to Ciena on April 15 for "Predictive resource allocation and scheduling for a distributed workload" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,445, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Predictive resource allocation and scheduling for a distributed workload" was invented by Gauravdeep Singh Shami (Ottawa), Ziqiang Wang (Ottawa), Marc Lyonnais (Gatineau, Canada) and Abdullah Bittar (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for predicting how tasks should be allocated to available network resources. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of receiving resource utilization metrics from each of a plurality of nodes arranged in a cluster, wherein the resource utilization metrics of each node include in...