US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 7 for "Deployment of updates at multiple sites" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,544, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deployment of updates at multiple sites" was invented by Peter Louis White (Redmond, Wash.), Calum Sutherland Loudon (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Olga Arkhangelskaia (Enfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for orchestrating an update to a computing network comprising a plurality of sites each comprising a plurality of computing nodes implementing a virtualized computing network managed by an orchestrator. The update is performed by a network manager configured to execute a series of operations in the...