US Patent Issued on Dec. 16 for "Methods and systems for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,956, issued on Dec. 16.

"Methods and systems for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes" was invented by Zhiming Shen (Ithaca, N.Y.), Hakim Weatherspoon (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Robbert Van Renesse (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes includes receiving, by a container engine executing on a first machine, an instruction to instantiate a container image on the first machine. The container engine transmits, to a modified container runtime process, executing on the first machine, the instruction to instantiate ...