US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Smart round robin delivery for hardware security module host requests" (North Carolina, New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,279, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart round robin delivery for hardware security module host requests" was invented by Surya V. Duggirala (Eagan, Minn.), Richard Victor Kisley (Charlotte, N.C.), Mark Douglas Marik (Denver, N.C.) and Michael Ordway Tingey Jr. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a system are provided that handles host requests on a hardware security module (HSM). The method includes selecting a domain with a longest wait time with a host request for the HSM and selecting an oldest host request request...