US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Nov. 25 for "Techniques for resource discovery while building data centers" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,540, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for resource discovery while building data centers" was invented by Erik Joseph Miller (Seattle) and Caleb Dockter (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for identifying resources within a region of a cloud computing environment that may be leveraged during a region build. A Multi-Flock Orchestrator (MFO) may be configured to obtain configuration files corresponding to services to be bootstrapped within the region during a region build process. MFO may determine an order by which the services are ...