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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2018
Salesforce.com, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
John Brian Stewart, Charlotte, NC (US);
Dinesh Premalal Weerapurage, Morrison, CO (US);
Timothy Alan Carnes, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Sebastian Groer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Lahiru Sandakith Pileththuwasan Gallege, Knoxville, TN (US);
Chenlu Lou, Knoxville, TN (US);
Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method involves utilizing a geo-locator service and zone servers to reduce server resource requirements for determining high quality solutions to routing problems. The use of a geo-locator service and zone servers enables the use of servers having less memory which can handle determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a smaller geographic area even if they are incapable of handling determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a larger geographic area, and enables efficient assignment of requests to an appropriate server without unduly burdening high value servers having sufficient memory to handle determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a very large geographic area with determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a smaller geographic area.