US Patent Issued to Databricks on July 15 for "Priority for autoscaling of streaming workloads" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,806, issued on July 15, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Priority for autoscaling of streaming workloads" was invented by Andreas Neumann (Oakland, Calif.), Kiavash Kianfar (San Francisco), Li Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tathagata Das (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for automatically scaling task-processing capacity. The method includes obtaining, at a data layer, a current measure of queued tasks and/or a task-processing capacity, obtaining, by one or more processors, a cost-prioritized criterion or a latency-prioritized cri...