US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Approach to gracefully resolve retry storms" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,173, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Approach to gracefully resolve retry storms" was invented by Yue Wang (Beijing), Wei Wu (Beijing), Xin Peng Liu (Beijing), Liang Wang (Beijing) and Biao Chai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in response to receiving an incoming service request and establishing a call chain of pods of a service mesh network, setting a retry locker parameter to a locked state for each pod in the call chain. A locked retry locker parameter prevents the pod from initiating retries of a service request. The method includes, in respons...