US Patent Issued to Netflix on July 29 for "Systems and methods for provisioning telemetry data using shared locks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,577, issued on July 29, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for provisioning telemetry data using shared locks" was invented by Colin McIntosh (San Francisco) and Michael Costello (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method includes identifying a target networking device communicatively connected to a cluster of networked server instances. The networked server instances are configured to consume network telemetry messages. The method further includes applying a shared lock to the target networking device, so that only a single networked server instance has...