US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Cluster security based on virtual machine content" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,972, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cluster security based on virtual machine content" was invented by Shailaja Mallya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster is scanned. The cluster includes one or more virtual machines. A first content file change is detected based on the scan of the cluster. The first content file change is to a first content file. The first content file is located on a first virtual machine related to the cluster. A content-based security level of the cluster is determined based on the detection of the first content file change. The det...