ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,099, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Pivotal Software Inc. (San Francisco).
"Release lifecycle management system for multi-node application" was invented by Vadim Spivak (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Kent Skaar (Stow, Mass.) and Oleg Shaldibin (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployment system provides the ability to deploy a multi-node distributed application, such as a cloud computing platform application that has a plurality of interconnected nodes performing specialized jobs. The deployment system may update a currently running cloud computing platform application according to a deployment manifest and a versione...