US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Live migration of bare-metal instances that are backed by SDN appliances" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,008, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Live migration of bare-metal instances that are backed by SDN appliances" was invented by Anish Sagar Narsian (Cupertino, Calif.), Jiatong Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Paul Rosenberg (Redmond, Wash.) and Tao Deng (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, a network control apparatus executes the live migration of a source bare-metal instance backed by a source software defined networking (SDN) appliance to a destination bare-metal instance associated with a destination software defined networking (SDN) applian...