US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 3 for "System for live-migration and automated recovery of applications in a distributed system" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,545, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System for live-migration and automated recovery of applications in a distributed system" was invented by Luke Marsden (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for distribution of applications amongst a number of servers, ensuring that changes to application data on a master for that application are asynchronously replicated to a number of slaves for that application. Servers may be located in geographically diverse locations; the invention permits data replication over high-latency and lossy network connections and failure...