ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,764, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Seamless migration of containers between host nodes" was invented by Hong Jun Tu (Beijing), Yiwen Huang (Markham, Canada), Wen Tao Zhang (Beijing), Hongsen Liu (Beijing), Ye Cui (Beijing) and Li Gu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Migrating containers between host nodes is provided. An indication is received that a checkpointed state of a container running an application providing at least one of a set of critical services or a set of non-critical services was transferred from a source host node to a target host node. In response to re...