US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on March 3 for "Distributed fault-tolerance via disaggregated memory boards" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,673, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Distributed fault-tolerance via disaggregated memory boards" was invented by Norbert Egi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Meng Wang (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system that includes multiple compute nodes and a memory node separate from the multiple compute nodes. The method comprises executing a task using the multiple compute nodes; recurrently receiving snapshots at the memory node from the multiple compute nodes, each snapshot including an instance of a task database; setting a current checkpoint by stori...