US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 20 for "Method for seamless failback after planned failover" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,627, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method for seamless failback after planned failover" was invented by Sanjana Kaundinya (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rajini Sivaram (Romsey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to seamless failback after a planned failover. The method comprises executing a reverse-and-swap command to transition a primary topic on a primary cluster from a mirror state to a production state and a corresponding secondary topic on a secondary cluster from the production state to the mirror state. Based on the reverse-and-swap...