Alibaba Group Holding Assigned Patent

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, George Town, Cayman Islands, has been assigned a patent (9,477,556) developed by Deng, Minhui, and Luo, Kunli, Hangzhou, China, for a “method and system for session disaster recovery.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the present application relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product. A method is provided and includes in the event that a check trigger condition is satisfied for a disaster recovery intervention rule in a disaster recovery intervention rule base, automatically checking whether an intervention is to be performed for a session storage medium determined by a session configuration information already loaded in a session configuration file, the checking being performed based on the satisfied disaster recovery intervention rule, in the event that the intervention is determined to be performed, determining a next session storage medium corresponding to the session storage medium requiring intervention, and loading configuration information corresponding to the next session storage medium into the session configuration file to switch the configuration information corresponding to the session storage medium requiring intervention to the configuration information corresponding to the next session storage medium.“

The patent application was filed on March 19, 2015 (14/662,905).