US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 21 for "Online merging of fragmented computing resources across storage servers by tenant in cloud environments" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,203, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Online merging of fragmented computing resources across storage servers by tenant in cloud environments" was invented by Shushuai Zhu (Nashua, N.H.), Bo Zou (Ottawa), Yueying Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Nagarajan Muthupandian (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client data corresponding to a single client can be stored. A decision to proceed with a defragmentation of two or more particular core groups can be determined. A destination core group to receive client data can be identified. At least one additional core group can be initi...