US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 30 for "Optimizing replication-based migration of virtual machines" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,151, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing replication-based migration of virtual machines" was invented by Or Igelka (Tel Mond, Israel) and Leonid Vasetsky (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosure is made of methods, apparatus and system for migrating virtual machines (VMs) between source and destination in a computing environment and, more specifically, to replication based migration. VMs migration is controlled so as to manage transferal of data associated with one or more VMs from a source location to a destination location to meet certain user definable or sys...