US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 21 for "Automatic container image registry selection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,047, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic container image registry selection" was invented by Rong Fu (Ningbo, China), Hao Sheng (Ningbo, China), Pan Li (Beijing), Xiao Lin Sun (Beijing), Yao Chen (Ningbo, China) and Qing Yuan Meng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic container image registry selection is provided. A predefined number of top performing container image registries is selected from a top of a sorted list of a plurality of container image registries listed in descending order. A cluster of host nodes where a container is deployed is enabled to pu...