US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 22 for "Live migration of running applications between computer systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,323, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Live migration of running applications between computer systems" was invented by Steven Sanderson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device initiates a template state phase of executing an executable file comprising portable bytecode, including supplying a non-deterministic value request with a deterministic value. After completing the template state phase, the first device generates a memory snapshot for a set of memory pages used by the executable file. The first device then initiates an operational phase of e...