ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,718, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pegasystems Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Cloud-independent node upgrade" was invented by Karan Kapoor (Boston), Abirami Natarajan (Plainville, Mass.) and Kevin Lee Walsh (Abington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for upgrading a container node in a cloud environment. The system includes a processor coupled to a memory and a network interface. The processor is configured to obtain a version identifier associated with a cloud-based server instance and one or more container nodes operable in a cloud environment. The processor is furth...