US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 2 for "Image management for container runtimes" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,844, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Image management for container runtimes" was invented by Xun Pan (Xian, China), Ge Wei Pang (Xian, China) and Jing Chen (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an approach for image management for container runtimes. A first image of a first application for a first container runtime can be downloaded from an image repository providing the first image. Content data of the first application and management data corresponding to the first application and the first container runtime can be extracted from the first image. Both the ...