ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,112, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).
"Virtual machine migration method and system" was invented by Xiao Zheng (Shanghai), Lixiang Lin (Shanghai) and Xin Long (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A migration method and a migration system of a virtual machine are disclosed. The method includes: a virtual machine detecting whether a migration instruction is received, wherein the virtual machine runs on a first processor of a first host machine; the virtual machine calling and obtaining video memory data generated in the first processor if the migration instructio...