ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,969, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optimizing resource scaling" was invented by Sree Nandan Atur (Newark, Calif.) and Ravi Kumar Alluboyina (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for optimizing resource allocation in view of predicted network traffic patterns and predicted power consumption. Network packets defining a network traffic flow can be received at a platform over time. Metrics can be derived from one or more applications executing on resources of the platform and processing data contained in the n...