US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Capacity aware load packing for layer-4 load balancer" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,001, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Capacity aware load packing for layer-4 load balancer" was invented by Rohan Gandhi (Maharashtra, India) and Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for load balancing traffic per the capacities of direct IPs (DIPs). The methods and systems use latency measurements from each DIP to determine the capacity of each DIP. The methods and systems use the latency measurements to determine the weights for each DIP using an Integer Linear Program (ILP). The weights id...