ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,775, issued on July 22, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Scalable service discovery and load balancing using direct client connections to servers" was invented by Yaping Shi (Saratoga, Calif.), Eric Leu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xuetao Li (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for scalable service discover and load balancing using direct client connections to servers. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may provide different computing services to users through client devices, which utilize server instances from server ...