US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 28 for "Readiness probe for management applications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,884, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Readiness probe for management applications" was invented by Pradeep Baliganapalli Nagaraju (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for providing a framework for responding to readiness probes is described herein. In embodiments, a virtual machine communicates with one or more external dependencies and generates metrics data which is stored in a cache. In embodiments, an operating system agent transmits readiness probes to the virtual machine, which responds by comparing the metrics to objective values indicated in an external depen...