US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Virtual machine failover with disaggregated shared memory" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,652, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual machine failover with disaggregated shared memory" was invented by Daniel Waddington (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Moshik Hershcovitch (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes operating a program on a virtual machine on a first device having a local cache memory. Based on a determination that an epoch timer has not expired, aspects include writing one or more updates to the local cache memory and transmitting evicted items from the local cache memory to a shared memo...