US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 23 for "Scheduling actions in multiple replicas of computing environment using consensus protocol" (Israeli, Bulgarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,133, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scheduling actions in multiple replicas of computing environment using consensus protocol" was invented by Petar Nedkov Ivanov (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Ittai David Abraham (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and software to manage actions across a cluster of replica computing nodes for a data structure. In one implementation, a first replica in the cluster generates a first action notification and receives one or more additional action notifications from at least one other replica in the ...