ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,986, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Guest OS managed point in time snapshots" was invented by Yogender Solanki (Bangalore, India) and Vikas Suryawanshi (Nanded, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide solutions for managing point in time (PIT) snapshots by a guest operating system (OS) to provide more rapid start-up time for virtualized component (VC) clones (e.g., virtual machines, VMs) and simplify restoration. Examples include the guest OS determining that the VC has completed a boot process and is in a known good state. The guest OS instructs the hypervisor to s...