US Patent Issued to Alibaba Group Holding on Nov. 18 for "Container-based application management method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,762, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Container-based application management method and apparatus" was invented by Mingwei Shi (Hangzhou, China), Xinyu Zhou (Hangzhou, China), Xiaobin Xu (Hangzhou, China), Shichao Nie (Hangzhou, China), Zhouxiang Zhan (Hangzhou, China) and Chuan Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container-based application management method and apparatus are disclosed. A container-based serverless computing system is configured such that an application instance is allowed to be in one of an online state and a low-power state at runtime...