US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Aug. 5 for "Deployment of container images with separate add-ons" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,913, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Deployment of container images with separate add-ons" was invented by Rui Liu (Beijing), Ying Mo (Beijing), Yue Chen (Beijing), Ya Xiao (Beijing) and Hu Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container image is deployed, at runtime, on a node within a computing environment. The deploying includes downloading, at runtime, container image content from multiple sites. The downloading includes obtaining a core image of the container image from one or more image registries and updating a local image store with the core image, and obtaining...