Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Assigned Patent

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (10,318,343) developed by Zhang, Yu, Xu, Zhen,Cao, Feifei, and Xie, Guangjun, Beijing, China, for “migration methods and apparatuses for migrating virtual machine including locally stored and shared data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present application discloses a virtual machine migration method and apparatus. A specific implementation of the method includes: receiving a migration request for migrating a virtual machine, wherein to-be-migrated data of the virtual machine comprises local data locally stored and shared data accessible by the virtual machine at a plurality of locations, determining migration operations respectively corresponding to the local data and the shared data in response to the migration request, and executing the migration operations corresponding to the local data and the shared data, to complete migration of the virtual machine. This implementation achieves the migration of a virtual machine with a hybrid storage mode, that is, a storage mode in which the data to be migrated includes both local data and shared data.”

The patent application was filed on November 27, 2015 (15/534,589).