US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 27 for "Leader election for groups of applications" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,059, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Leader election for groups of applications" was invented by Xiaopei Liu (Beijing), Zhengsheng Zhou (Beijing), Wenfeng Liu (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for electing a leader in a computing system is provided. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a computing resource for multiple container groups that each include one or more containers. A determination is made, from applications running in containers of the container groups, of multiple election candidate applications. Each election candi...