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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Enrica Alberti, Rome, IT;

Gianluca Mariani, Rome, IT;

Antonio Secomandi, Rome, IT;

Michele Tomassi, Rome, IT;

Viviana Tripodi, Rome, IT;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30088 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solution is proposed for managing each one of a plurality of computing machines. A corresponding method comprises taking one or more snapshots of the computing machine or part thereof, the snapshots being organized in a snapshot tree of nodes representing the snapshots according to a dependency thereof, expanding the snapshot tree of the computing machine according to each sub-tree of the snapshot tree of each other computing machine having the snapshot of a parent node of the sub-tree matching a graft node of the snapshot tree of the computing machine, the sub-tree being appended to the graft node, selecting a snapshot of the other computing machines represented by a selected node of the snapshot tree of the computing machine, and restoring the selected snapshot on the computing machine.


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