ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,602, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Seamless hot upgrade process with database schema change" was invented by Jing Jing Wei (Beijing), Yue Wang (Beijing), Yang Kang (Beijing), Yi Fan Wu (Beijing), Shu Jun Tang (Beijing) and Jia Lin Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for executing a hot upgrade process is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a process upgrade request during executions of first and second tasks by an old container, determining that the process upgrade request affects the first task but not the seco...