US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 16 for "Live container migration with minimal production system impact" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,971, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Live container migration with minimal production system impact" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Zhan Peng Huo (Beijing), Yan Fei Qin (Beijing), Sheng Shuang Li (Beijing) and Wen Bin Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Live container migration management is provided. A read and write logical sub container layer that includes a set of changed files within a container layer of a first container is utilized to continue processing inputs and outputs corresponding to a service provided by the first container to avoid interruptio...