US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Optimized container image retrieval for devices at edge locations" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,427, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optimized container image retrieval for devices at edge locations" was invented by Kumar Deepak Syam Kallakuri (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling computing devices in computing environments distinct from a cloud provider network to use temporally staggered container image pull requests upon initiating execution of a container-based task. For example, upon determining to launch a container on a computing device running in a computing environment that is distinct from a cloud provider network, an agent running...