ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,969, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Detection of instance liveness" was invented by Pingan Chen (Qingdao, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method, at a given instance of a cluster of instances of at least one service, at least one monitored instance is selected from the cluster of instances according to a selection criterion such that each instance of the cluster of instances is selected as a monitored instance by at least one other instance of the cluster of instances. The given instance is caused to detect an operational status of the at least one monitored i...