US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Intelligent process management in serverless workflow cloud environments" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,255, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent process management in serverless workflow cloud environments" was invented by Jing Jing Wei (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing), Shu Jun Tang (Beijing), Yang Kang (Beijing), Yi Fan Wu (Beijing), Qi Han Zheng (Beijing) and Jia Lin Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent process management is provided. A start time is determined for an additional process to be run on a worker node within a duration of a sleep state of a task of a process already running on the worker node by adding a first defined buffer time to a det...