US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Increasing fault tolerance in a multi-node replication system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,370, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Increasing fault tolerance in a multi-node replication system" was invented by Ji Dai (Shanghai), Xin Zhang (Shanghai) and Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes fault-tolerant data replication system implemented by a cluster of compute devices. The system includes a witness comprising persistent data storage and multiple nodes configured to selectively execute leader node operations when serving as a leader of the cluster. The leader node operations include detecting an availabilit...