US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 12 for "Secure container use based on permission limitation of image layers" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,830, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Secure container use based on permission limitation of image layers" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Si Yu Chen (Beijing), Wen Ji Huang (Beijing), Heng Wang (Beijing) and Yan Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure container use is provided. The method generates respective user group permission identifications associated with image layer staging operations permissions assigned to different user groups as well as a list of the user group permission identifications. Responsive to a request from a user to perform an imag...