US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 6 for "Load balancing with multi-leader election and leadership delegation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,217, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Load balancing with multi-leader election and leadership delegation" was invented by Pan Xiao (Chengdu, China) and Xuhui Yang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load balancing method for use in conjunction with an application or service provided by a distributed computing system may begin by electing, from a group of participants, a leader for each of a plurality of tasks associated with the application or service. Responsive to detecting a signal or some other indication to run a particular task, the elected leader of the particular task may d...