US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Jan. 13 for "Dynamic allocation of partitions in a distributed data processing system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,442, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Dynamic allocation of partitions in a distributed data processing system" was invented by Mikolaj Kocikowski (Mound, Minn.), Sergii Nuzhdin (New Malden, Great Britain), Gabriele Viglianisi (London) and Thomas Walwyn (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A claim is granted over a partition to a consumer. The claim is valid for a period and allows only that consumer to consume data of the partition during the period. The consumer consumes the data until the claim expires or the data in the partition is fully consumed. If the consumer fully consumes the data of t...