ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,096, issued on April 29, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).
"Hierarchical scheduler" was invented by David Tyler Bischel (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel Xuan Nguyen (Bothell, Wash.), Timothy Jenkins (Riverside, Calif.), Vyacheslav Kim (Anaheim, Calif.), Eric Yongjun Choi (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and Isaac Saldana (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are directed to the implementation of configurable hierarchical schedulers with multiple levels, where each level may use one of several types of queueing mechanisms. A configurable, hierarchical scheduler is designed to handle large scal...