US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Orchestrated shutdown of virtual machines using a shutdown interface and a network card" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,946, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Orchestrated shutdown of virtual machines using a shutdown interface and a network card" was invented by Naveen Kumar (South Grafton, Mass.) and Richard Rubino (Hingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for orchestrating a shutdown of virtual machines using a shutdown interface and a network card. One method comprises receiving a message sent by a controller application, executing on a network card of a hyperconverged appliance, wherein the message is sent by the controller application after shutting down one or more user-create...