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Patent Reveals Breakthrough in Multi-Region Job Deployment for Cloud Computing

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Cloud computing platforms struggle to meet high-availability and performance requirements for mission-critical applications deployed across multiple geographic regions. HashiCorp's Nomad workload orchestrator addresses this challenge by providing a way to coordinate deployments, but it falls short in multi-region scenarios. A new patent filed by Timothy Gross, a San Francisco-based inventor, presents a system and method for multi-region deployment of jobs in a federated cloud infrastructure, enabling control over staged rollouts and rollbacks on failure.

Key Takeaways:

  • The patent describes a system that receives a job for execution in two or more regions of a multi-region cloud computing infrastructure, each comprising a collection of servers joined in a raft group for separate, regional execution of the job.
  • The system generates a copy of the job for each region and deploys the job according to a deployment plan, receiving a state indication from each region representing the completion state of the job.
  • The method ensures that deployments can be coordinated across multiple regions, allowing for staged rollouts and rollbacks on failure.
  • The patent includes claims that describe the method and system in detail, including generating a copy of the job for each region, deploying the job according to a deployment plan, and receiving a state indication from each region.
  • The system provides a workload orchestrator server that can deploy the job to multiple regions, transmitting a block to inhibit execution until non-blocked regions successfully execute the job.
  • The patent describes a federated cloud computing infrastructure platform that includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions to receive code that represents a job for execution and designate two or more regions.
  • The system generates a copy of the job for each region, deploys the job to the regions, and receives a state indication from each region.

Statistics:

  • The patent was filed on December 15, 2023
  • The patent was published online on June 24, 2025
  • The patent number is 12340250
  • The inventor, Timothy Gross, is based in San Francisco, CA
  • HashiCorp is the assignee of the patent
  • The patent describes a system that can deploy jobs to 2 or more regions
  • The patent includes 10 claims that describe the method and system in detail

Sources:

  • Gross, Timothy. Multi-region deployment of jobs in a federated cloud infrastructure. U.S. Patent Number 12340250, filed December 15, 2023, and published online on June 24, 2025. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(12340250)&db=USPAT&type=ids
  • NewsRx LLC. Patent Reveals Breakthrough in Multi-Region Job Deployment for Cloud Computing. July 15, 2025.

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