US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 9 for "Live migration between hosts of a virtual machine connection to a host interface" (American, Swiss, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,481, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Live migration between hosts of a virtual machine connection to a host interface" was invented by Jonas Alexander Pfefferle (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), Nikolas Ioannou (Zurich), Jose Gabriel Castanos (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Danny Harnik (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gautam H. Shah (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Live migration of a virtual machine (VM) includes establishing multipath connections between the VM and functions of host interface on a source host. The multipath connections include a passthrough path and a software-vir...