US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 30 for "Workflow-based scheduling and batching in multi-tenant distributed systems" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,167, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Workflow-based scheduling and batching in multi-tenant distributed systems" was invented by Adriana Wood (Redmond, Wash.), Andrei-Dumitru Blotu (Suzhou-SIP, China), Feng Zhang (Suzhou-SIP, China), Jingzhou Liu (Redmond, Wash.) and Seshadri Mani (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operation requests received from a tenant are added to a tenant-specific queue. A tenant scheduling work item is added to an execution queue that is shared with other tenants. When the tenant scheduling work item is executed, it copies up to a defined n...