US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Coordinated hooking mechanism for checkpointing virtual machines" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,276, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Coordinated hooking mechanism for checkpointing virtual machines" was invented by Oluwatobi Ajila (Ottawa), Vijay Sundaresan (North York, Canada), Thomas J. Watson (Pflugerville, Texas) and Daniel Heidinga (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention include systems and methods configured to checkpoint an application executing on a virtual machine. Aspects include receiving from a first thread executing on a virtual machine a call to a checkpoint application program interface (API) and suspending, by the virtual machine, e...