US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 8 for "Intelligent load balancing in a distributed system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,763, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent load balancing in a distributed system" was invented by George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.), Mukesh K. Sharma (Wakad Pune, India) and Murthy V. Mamidi (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for performing load balancing in a filesystem of a distributed network comprising worker nodes accessing shared resources that are controlled by distributed locks to grant and prevent access from clients, by assigning a range of directory entries to each worker node, and providing feedback from each worker node to a load balancer to expos...