ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,912, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Synchronoss Technologies Inc (Bridgewater, N.J.).
"Method and system for uniform, consistent, stateless and deterministic consistent hashing for fixed size partitions" was invented by Ivan Skuliber (Dublin), Dennis P. Mathew (Allentown, Pa.) and Michael A. Bellomo (Nazareth, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method and system for uniform, consistent, stateless, and deterministic consistent hashing for fixed size partitions. The method comprises receiving server information for a plurality of servers in a server pool; ordering the server information for the plurality of s...