ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,160, issued on March 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Provisioning of resources" was invented by Francoise Alabiso (Montpellier, France), Olivier Boehler (Montpellier, France), Michael C. Buzzetti (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Frank J. De Gilio (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Sebastien Llaurency (Lunel, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reservation of resources for a service includes receiving a request for resources for a project duration with a start time and an end time; determining if the requested resources are available for the project duration; determining a utilization level of one or more reso...