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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 08, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kirk A. Beaty, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);

Jose I. Ramirez, Cartago, CR;

Bhuvan Sharma, Belmont, MA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/50 (2013.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); G06F 2209/5011 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, a system, and a computer program product are provided. A first computing device determines that data to be processed for a request is confined to a geographic region in which the data is stored and identifies a second computing device within the geographic region in which the data is stored, wherein the identified second computing device and the computing device are connected to a network. The computing device directs the identified second computing to process the data within the geographic region to which the data is confined, according to the request, by one or more processing nodes executing on the identified second computing device.


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