US Patent 10056983 Quantum-assisted load balancing in communication-constrained wide-area physical networks

The availability of entangled quantum signals can improve distributed decision making. In particular, it can improve the efficiency of coordination and the ability to perform load balancing in high-speed wide-area networks, and other communication-constrained network environments. We include an application to high-frequency trading on geographically-separated financial markets, and we discuss load balancing in IT and electrical networks and also a battlefield scenario.