US Patent Issued to VMware on May 27 for "Cluster partition handling during upgrade of a highly available application hosted in a data center" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,700, issued on May 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cluster partition handling during upgrade of a highly available application hosted in a data center" was invented by Sandeep Sinha (Bangalore, India), Aniket Avinash Sakhardande (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rahul Kumar Singh (Bangalore, India), Chandrika Mutalik (Bangalore, India), Akash Kodenkiri (Bangalore, India) and Vasantha Kumari Tammana (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of upgrading an application in a software-defined data center (SDDC) includes: deploying, by lifecycle management software executing in the SDDC, a second appliance...