ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,321, issued on June 17, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Application-assisted live migration" was invented by Arunachalam Ramanathan (Union City, Calif.), Bhavana Raj Kanthur Murnad (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Jeffrey W Sheldon (Los Altos, Calif.), Pavan Narasimhaprasad (Cedar Park, Texas), Li Zheng (Palo Alto, Calif.), Oleg Zaydman (San Jose, Calif.), Anupama Chandwani (San Jose, Calif.) and Derek William Beard (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing application-assisted VM provisioning operations, and in particular application-assisted live migration, are provided. In one set of embodime...