ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,550, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Methods and apparatus for hypervisor boot up" was invented by Satheesh Kumar Ulaganathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tom Jose Kalapura (Mountain House, Calif.) and Jimmy McCrory (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to apparatus and methods for booting servers, such as cloud datacenter compute servers. The servers may execute one or more hypervisors, such as stateless hypervisors, with each hypervisor supporting one or more virtual machines. In some examples, each of a plurality of servers are configured to boot from a network. ...