US Patent Issued to Red Hat on May 19 for "Fair and efficient guest to hypervisor virtual machine socket protocol" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,275, issued on May 19, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Fair and efficient guest to hypervisor virtual machine socket protocol" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fair and efficient guest to hypervisor virtual machine socket protocol may be provided by: in response to a host determining to reject a message received from a guest that was previously accepted for processing by the host, transmitting a rejection to the guest; in response to receiving, at the guest, the rejection, adding the message to a processing request queue on the guest; in response to determining that...