ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,755, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Techniques for shutdown acceleration" was invented by Xiang Yu Xue (Beijing), Bo Chen Zhu (Xi'an, China), Hui Wang (Beijing), Mai Zeng (Beijing), Xiao Chen Huang (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Wei Li (Beijing) and Yu Mei Dai (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for managing an accelerated shutdown of a networked system having a having a plurality of nodes. The system to be shutdown is analyzed and a priority order is determined for the nodes. An interval period is...