ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,455, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"File operation task optimization" was invented by Chi Ma (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kenneth J. Goldman (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yonggang Zhao (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephen P.G. Gildea (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a data processing apparatus, a plurality of file operation requests, each file operation request including a priority, a deadline, and an operation type and representing a request to perform an operation on at least one file maintained in a distributed file system; identifying, by the data processing appa...