ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,652, issued on May 13, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Method and system for virtual server dormancy" was invented by Shu-Shang Sam Wei (Danville, Calif.), Shreyas Satyanand Kaushik (Bangaloare, India) and Edward C. Bueche (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a dormant state for content management servers is provided. Client devices are allowed to conduct transactions with servers when the servers are active. However, in a dormant state, the servers are not allowed to accept new transactions. Thus, by utilizing the dormant state, software upgrades can be made to one server at ...