US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 30 for "Credit-based scheduling using load prediction" (Massachusetts, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,156, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Credit-based scheduling using load prediction" was invented by Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Maher Kachmar (Marlborough, Mass.), Christopher Jones (Plainville, Mass.) and James McCoy (Holliston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for scheduling tasks in a storage system includes predicting excess capacity of processing resources over a known interval of time and determining a quantity of credit based on the predicted capacity. The technique further includes holding back a requested increase in the priority of one or more speed-noncrit...