US Patent Issued to Confluent on Nov. 11 for "Constraint-based resource planning for server clusters" (New York, Washington, Kansas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,566, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Confluent Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Constraint-based resource planning for server clusters" was invented by Thomas George Snyder III (New York), Deyu Jiao (Seattle), Prachetaa Raghavan (Sammamish, Wash.), Ajit Yagaty (Sammamish, Wash.), Roger Hoover (San Mateo, Calif.) and Daniel Raymond LaMotte (WaKeeney, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a resource is being deployed to the cloud, there are many possible locations for the deployment. When a resource is created, it is placed under a parent resource. As discussed herein, a system for applying constraints to resources is used. A const...