ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,034, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Guian New District, China).

"Scheduling method and apparatus, and related device" was invented by Zhipiao Liu (Beijing), Mingyao Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Huicai Deng (Shenzhen, China) and Zhe Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a scheduling method and apparatus, and a related device. The method includes a central cluster receiving a scheduling request sent by a first cluster, and determining a second cluster that meets the scheduling request. The central cluster indicates the first cluster to execute a task by...