US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Data deduplication for replication-based migration of virtual machines" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,046, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Data deduplication for replication-based migration of virtual machines" was invented by Or Igelka (Tel Mond, Israel) and Ayelet Wald (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A migration system provides data deduplication for migrating virtual machines across a network. The system maintains a centralized deduplication dictionary storing key-value pairs of identifiers and corresponding virtual machine data mapped to the identifiers, which are transferred as part of a migrating virtual machine. The migration system can store at least a portion of th...