US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Virtual machine live migration method and communications device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,816, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual machine live migration method and communications device" was invented by Shui Cao (Shanghai), Yaochong Liu (Hangzhou, China), Jun Qiu (Hangzhou, China) and Changchun Ouyang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example virtual machine live migration methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first virtual machine which runs on a source server is migrated to a destination server. The source server includes a single-root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) network adapter. The virtual machine manager delivers a live m...