ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,869, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).
"Smart services placement" was invented by Eric Shobe (Larkspur, Calif.), Oleg Guba (Redwood City, Calif.), Ganesh Prasad Rapolu (Mountain House, Calif.) and Richard Davis (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may obtain performance signals associated with at least one of a plurality of servers used in connection with performing a task. A system may provide the performance signals to a machine learning model. A system may receive as output from the machine learning model a health metric related to the at least one of the plurality of servers. A system may...