US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on May 20 for "Task scheduling based on task type use levels and priority levels" (Chinese, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,298, issued on May 20, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Task scheduling based on task type use levels and priority levels" was invented by Sicong Yao (Shanghai), Xianlong Liu (Shanghai), Jing Chen (Epping, Australia) and Jianhua Shao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to storage system management within a storage system. Such storage system management involves task scheduling. Along these lines, a group of tasks for execution may be selected based on task type use levels and priority levels. Accordingly, there may be more reasonable allocation of resources thus increasing the u...