US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 22 for "Virtual machine-initiated workload management" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,072, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual machine-initiated workload management" was invented by Veena Ganti (Austin, Texas), Lakshmi Yadlapati (Austin, Texas) and Rui Yang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of administering a shared pool of computer system resources that includes monitoring, by a first node, resources made of a first cluster having the first and second node, and where the resources use a network to communicate with each other, maintaining, by the first cluster, a record made of parameters associated with performance of the first and sec...