US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 23 for "Browser platform for self-hosting a web service" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,706, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Browser platform for self-hosting a web service" was invented by Nicholas James Daffern (Winchester, Great Britain), William James Simmons (Winchester, Great Britain), James Adam Nash (London) and Giles Auryn Hasler Billenness (Winchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of downloading a container image of a web service from a data store, wherein the web service is configured to be self-hosted, deploying a self-hosted copy of the web service within a container runtime of a local devi...