ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,750, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Automatic state migration of stateful container during secondary application container hot upgrade" was invented by Yue Wang (Beijing), Xinpeng Liu (Austin, Texas), Wei Wu (Beijing), Liang Wang (Beijing) and Biao Chai (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secondary application container hot upgrade is provided. It is determined whether an upgraded secondary application container is ready to run in a pod that includes a secondary application container, a router container, and a primary application container based on monitoring a status of th...