US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on Sept. 1 for "Recovering a virtual machine after failure of Post-Copy live migration" (Sri Lankan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,677, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Binghamton, N.Y.).

"Recovering a virtual machine after failure of Post-Copy live migration" was invented by Kartik Gopalan (Vestal, N.Y.), Ping Yang (Vestal, N.Y.), Dinuni K. Fernando (Hapugoda, Sri Lanka) and Jonathan Terner (Beacon, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Post-copy is one of the two key techniques (besides pre-copy) for live migration of virtual machines in data centers. Post-copy provides deterministic total migration time and low downtime for write-intensive VMs. However, if post-copy migration fails for any reason, ...