US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on June 24 for "Priority-based load shedding for computing systems" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,252, issued on June 24, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Priority-based load shedding for computing systems" was invented by Jakob Holdgaard Thomsen (Risskov, Denmark), Jesper Lindstrom Nielsen (Lystrup, Denmark), Timothy Smyth (Hoboken, N.J.) and Vladimir Gavrilenko (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online system performs load shedding in case of system overloads. The system maps each request to a tier and a cohort. The tier is determined based on a type of request and the cohort is determined based on the user. Each tier includes multiple cohorts. The tiers and cohorts are ranked by priority...