US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Dec. 16 for "Memory management for busy virtual machine guests" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,953, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Memory management for busy virtual machine guests" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Andrea Arcangeli (Mineola, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing memory management for virtual machines. An example method may comprise: accessing, by a hypervisor running on a host computer system, a data structure exposed by a virtual machine managed by the hypervisor, wherein the data structure includes an estimated next access time for one or more memory pages of a plurality of memory pages associated with the virtual m...