MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617074148 A) filed by International Business Machines on June 15, 2026, for Scaling Micro-Services Using Dependency Graphs.
Inventors include Pittner, Daniel; Isinger, Benjamin Number; Habermann, Christian; Agrawal, Sugandha; and Werner, Jeremias.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: A method for reduced latency between software services operating in a service mesh, where the software services are instantiated when fulfilling requests is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of services which fulfill a request, where communication between the services is based on support components, The method also comprises creating a directed dependency graph of the plurality of services by tracing request flows between the plurality of services, thereby nodes of the directed dependency graph represent services and edges of the directed dependency graph represent used communication paths between selected ones of the services, determining a dependent service for an incoming request to a selected one of the plurality of services based on the directed dependency graph, and starting an instance of the dependent service together with the selected one of the plurality of services.
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