US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 18 for "Method and system to discover and manage distributed applications in virtualization environments" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,013, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method and system to discover and manage distributed applications in virtualization environments" was invented by Enrica Alberti (Rome), Riccardo Rossi (Rome), Antonio Secomandi (Rome), Michele Tomassi (Rome) and Viviana Tripodi (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a plurality of computing machines includes accessing a catalogue memory structure storing a plurality of component signatures, discovering one or more of the software components being instantiated in a software image of each computing machine according to co...