US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Conveying contextual information across clusters" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,323, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Conveying contextual information across clusters" was invented by Etai Lev Ran (Nofit, Israel) and Dean Har'el Lorenz (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a tunnel request at a service cluster from a client at a remote cluster. The received tunnel request includes metadata associated with the client at the remote cluster. The computer-implemented method further includes using the metadata to establish a surrogate pod at the service cluster that replicates t...