US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 9 for "Workload scheduling using queues with different priorities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,488, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Workload scheduling using queues with different priorities" was invented by Yu Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Thomas Benjamin Jablin (Saratoga, Calif.) and Caitlin King Stanton (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scheduling workloads on computing resources using a high priority queue and a low priority queue. The high priority queue maintains pending high priority workloads to be scheduled for execution, and the low priority queue maintains pending low prior...