ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,410, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Data cluster management" was invented by Chengxuan Xing (Winchester, Great Britain), Alexander Robert Wood (Romsey, Great Britain), Samuel S May (Portsmouth, Great Britain) and Doina Liliana Klinger (Winchester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authorizing a pull request from a managed cluster may include generating an encrypted pull secret for a managed cluster, assigning the generated encrypted pull secret to the managed cluster, determining, responsive to receiving a pull request from a managed cluster at the serv...