ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,703, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Parallel multi-rack dataplane upgrades" was invented by Prashanth Suresh (San Jose, Calif.), Sushil Shripal Munot (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shyama Sankar Vellore (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rucha Rajurkar (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein include systems and methods for parallel upgrades of multiple hosts within an on-premises, multi-rack software-defined data center ("SDDC"). Upgrade instructions can be provided to a point-of-presence ("POP") virtual machine ("VM") of the SDDC, which can call an application programming inte...