US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 7 for "Efficient network device failover management for virtual machines" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,791, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Efficient network device failover management for virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for virtual machine networking can include detecting, by a virtual machine (VM), a primary virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) configured with a first media access control (MAC) address assigned to the VM by a hypervisor running on a host computer system, and detecting a standby vNIC configured with a second MAC address. They can further include binding a software Network Interface Contro...