ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,865, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mechanisms for grouping nodes" was invented by Charan Reddy Guttapalem (Fremont, Calif.), Hemanth Siddulugari (Dublin, Calif.) and Venkateswararao Jujjuri (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to upgrade groups. A node of a computer system may access metadata assigned to the node during deployment of the node. The node may be one of a plurality of nodes associated with a service that is implemented by the computer system. The node may perform an operation on the metadata to derive a group identifier for the node and the...