ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,214, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Efficient container migration" was invented by Yu Sun (Shanghai), Zhan Peng Huo (Beijing), Da Long Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Hong Yi Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Container migration is provided. A comparison of a second image and a third image is performed to detect data changes made by write input/output operations occurring between a second timestamp and a third timestamp. It is determined whether a set of data changes exists in the third image that occurred between the second timestamp and the third timestamp. In resp...