AT&T Intellectual Property I Assigned Patent

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA, has been assigned a patent (11,240,305) developed by Meredith, Sheldon Kent, Roswell, GA, Cottrill, William, Canton, GA, and Zerick, Juliette, Alpharetta, GA, for a “task allocation among devices in a distributed data storage system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “In one example, a processor may receive a first request to process a first task, the first request including a first estimated central processing unit utilization for the first task and a first estimated memory utilization for the first task and receive central processing unit capacities and memory capacities of a plurality of sub-data routers including at least a first sub-data router. The processor may further determine that the first sub-data router has a lowest central processing unit capacity from among the plurality of sub-data routers that is sufficient to accommodate the first estimated central processing unit utilization for the first task and determine that the first sub-data router has a memory capacity that is sufficient to accommodate the first estimated memory utilization for the first task. The processor may then assign the first task to the first sub-data router.”

The patent application was filed on July 28, 2016 (15/222,729).