US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Resource-aware workload reallocation across cloud environments" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,830, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Resource-aware workload reallocation across cloud environments" was invented by Marquita May Ellis (White Plains, N.Y.), Abhishek Malvankar (White Plains, N.Y.) and Alaa S. Youssef (Valhalla, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer hardware system includes a context controller configured to manage recovery for a workload within a cloud environment. A plurality of compute nodes are initially allocated to the workload, as a current allocation, within a context of the cloud environment. A failure within the current allocation is identifie...