Patents by Inventor Thomas F. Leighton

Thomas F. Leighton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for distributing requests among a plurality of resources
    Publication number: 20020156892
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in mathematical mapping space. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the mathematical mapping space. The request is allocated to one of the resources based on a mathematical relationship between the request location and the resource location in the mathematical mapping space. An apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources includes the plurality of resources and an input receiving a resource request. A mapper in communication with the input maps the request to a request location in a mathematical mapping space and maps each of the plurality of resources to at least one resource locations in the mathematical mapping space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: David Karger, Eric Lehman, Thomas F. Leighton, Matthew Levine, Daniel Lewin, Rina Panagrahy