US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 18 for "Accelerated encoding for virtual machine synchronization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,948, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accelerated encoding for virtual machine synchronization" was invented by Daniel Waddington (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Saransh Gupta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a virtual machine (VM) memory synchronization process for improved failure tolerance. The process includes writing, by an intelligent memory controller (IMC), current snapshot data to a first series of contiguous memory addresses, where the current snapshot data is received by the IMC from a memory of an active VM via a direct memory access...