ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,256, issued on March 25, was assigned to DOUYIN VISION Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Hybrid resource scheduling method and system for online and offline transactions" was invented by Mingmeng Luo (Beijing), Wei Shao (Beijing), Yunyao Zhang (Beijing), Zidong Zhao (Beijing), Mengyu Zhang (Los Angeles), Shuguang Wang (Beijing), Zongqiang Zhang (Beijing) and Wu Xiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application provides a solution for resource scheduling. A method comprises: monitoring the status of online nodes in an online node cluster; in response to the status of the online nodes meeting a hybrid-deployment triggering condition, d...