ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,982, issued on April 21, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Fast provisioning of machines using network cloning" was invented by Giridhar Subramani Jayavelu (San Francisco), Sidharth Surana (San Jose, Calif.) and Subrahmanyam Bolla (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for cloning a set of one or more applications implemented by a first set of machines connected through a first logical network that defines a virtual private cloud in a set of one or more datacenters. The method instantiates a cloned, second set of machines that is a replicated copy of the firs...