US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 8 for "System shutdown based on tuned shutdown intervals" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,891, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System shutdown based on tuned shutdown intervals" was invented by Hui Wang (Beijing), Xiang Yu Xue (Beijing), Mai Zeng (Beijing), Yu Mei Dai (Beijing), Wei Li (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing) and Xiao Chen Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shutdown intervals between nodes of a dependency tree are determined. The dependency tree represents a system to be shut down and the nodes represent system components of the system. The determining the shutdown intervals includes calculating, for a pair of nodes of the dependency tree, a sh...