ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,702, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Efficient virtual IP address management for service clusters" was invented by Harshit Agarwal (Newark, Calif.) and Tabrez Parvez Memon (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that can manage access to a service from a cluster of computing nodes. An instance of the system can operate on a respective computing node. During operation, the system instance can identify an Internet Protocol (IP) address, which provides access to the service from the cluster of computing nodes to a client device at a cl...