Snap Assigned Patent

Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,360,816) developed by Baron, Bradley, Hollis, Benjamin Ralph, Seattle, WA, Cardwell, Peter, Bainbridge Island, WA, and Krzemien, John, Seattle, WA, for “dynamic usage of storage and processing unit allocation.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods are provided for managing dynamically allocated storage and processing units. The systems and methods include operations for determining, a usage pattern having a peak usage portion and a low usage portion, reserving a first collection of units on a dynamic unit allocation system during the peak usage portion, detecting a transition from the peak usage portion to the low usage portion, in response to detecting the transition, instructing the dynamic unit allocation system to reduce the first collection of units to reserve a second collection of units corresponding to a second amount of the low usage portion, selecting asynchronous tasks that consume a set of units greater than the second collection of units, and during a period of time that the dynamic unit allocation system is reducing the first collection of units, causing the asynchronous tasks to be executed by the dynamic allocation system.”

The patent application was filed on February 21, 2020 (16/797,608).