ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,947, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual machine deployment and hot-migration methods, VMM upgrade method, and server" was invented by Min Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yi Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Yi Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual machine deployment method, a virtual machine live migration method, a VMM upgrading method, a server, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The virtual machine deployment method includes: establishing mapping between a host virtual address (HVA) space for a post-upgrading virtual machine and a host physical address (HPA) space fo...