ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,831, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Mapping an application signature to designated cloud resources" was invented by Sagiv Draznin (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein provide systems for optimizing the use of cloud infrastructure and for assigning the execution of an application to hardware resources in a cloud platform that are preconfigured to handle the execution of the application. An application registration entity is made aware of different tiers within the cloud infrastructure. A tier is a designated area within a datacent...