US Patent Issued to Twilio on Nov. 11 for "Distributed in-memory timer queues" (California, Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,333, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Distributed in-memory timer queues" was invented by Christopher Lintz (Franktown, Colo.), Fawad Halim (Addison, Ill.) and Krishna Tushar Dharaiya (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for implementing distributed in-memory timer queues. A plurality of queues is distributed across a plurality of nodes. The plurality of queues includes a first queue. The first queue corresponds to current timer expirations for a tenant, time bucket, and shard. A sorted set includes minute references to unacknowledged timers for a tenant and s...