Patent ID: 11863613
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the relative probabilities are defined according to the equations, for
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where, m
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k is the number of server computing devices within the plurality of server computing devices; and
c is a threshold age below which the relative probabilities bias against selection.