US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 25 for "User-defined lightweight application checkpointing system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,695, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"User-defined lightweight application checkpointing system" was invented by Benjamin E. Santaus (Somerville, Mass.) and Emily Minor (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for achieving improved checkpointing are disclosed. A library that has been implemented in a process is accessed. This library facilitates checkpoint-and-resume functionality to enable the process to checkpoint itself. Tags are used to annotate code of the process. The tags define which data of the process is to be saved in an event in which the process terminates in an unexpect...