ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,847, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Dynamically removing duplicate container image layers" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Si Yu Chen (Beijing), Heng Wang (Beijing) and Bo Liu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Shared container image layer removal is provided. It is determined whether layer metadata corresponding to a selected layer of a container image includes a referenced image identifier corresponding to a reference shared layer of an other container image stored in local storage based on an analysis of the layer metadata. In response to determining that t...