US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 8 for "Convergence for time sensitive cloud applications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,661, issued on July 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Convergence for time sensitive cloud applications" was invented by Irena Atov (Redmond, Wash.), Somesh Chaturmohta (Redmond, Wash.) and Rui Liang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Failover functionality is by identifying at least two network paths for a media communications session between a virtual machine at a computing environment and a client application. Unique Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are assigned for the at least two network paths. Based on application and network metrics at the computing environment, a network cond...