US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 11 for "Techniques for deploying changes to improve reliability of a cloud service" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,816, issued on March 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for deploying changes to improve reliability of a cloud service" was invented by Nidhi Verma (Redmond, Wash.), Rahul Nigam (Bothell, Wash.) and Rohan Khanna (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements obtaining a set of input parameters associated with an update to be deployed to a plurality of server farms of a cloud-based service, wherein each server farm includes a primary replica configured to handle user traffic and a disaster recovery replica configured to handle user traffic respons...