SAS Institute Assigned Patent

SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, has been assigned a patent (9,313,266) developed by Weber, Tom, Raleigh, NC, and Kent, Paul, Apex, NC, for a “dynamic assignment of transfers of blocks of data.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A computer-program causing a computing device to transmit a command to a data storage cluster for multiple data transfer threads thereof to request assignment of a data transfer from a distribution thread, await receipt of a request for assignment from a data transfer thread, compare the quantity data transfer threads to the quantity of computation threads of a data processing cluster, assign to the data transfer thread an exchange of a block of data with a single computation thread in response to receipt of the request and to the multitude of data transfer threads comprising a greater quantity of threads than the multitude of computation threads, and assign to the data transfer thread exchanges of multiple blocks of data with multiple computation threads in response to receipt of the request and to the multitude of data transfer threads comprising a lesser quantity of threads than the multitude of computation threads.“

The patent application was filed on December 16, 2014 (14/572,446).