US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 15 for "Fault localization in a distributed computing system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,049, issued on April 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fault localization in a distributed computing system" was invented by Seema Nagar (Bangalore, India), Pooja Aggarwal (Bengaluru, India), Qing Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Larisa Shwartz (Greenwich, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Localizing a faulty microservice in a microservice architecture is achieved by developing healthy execution sequence data for comparison to execution sequences during system failures. Oftentimes the faulty microservice does not emit a failure signal. Frequent sub-sequences arising from log template time series...