US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Distributed workload reassignment following communication failure" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,490, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Distributed workload reassignment following communication failure" was invented by David Kruse (Kirkland, Wash.), Qibo Zhu (Sammamish, Wash.), David Dion (Bothell, Wash.), Vladimir Petter (Bellevue, Wash.) and Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generation identifier is employed with various systems and methods in order to identify situations where a workload has been reassigned to a new node and where a workload is still being processed by an old node during a failure between nodes. A master node may as...