US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Oct. 14 for "Hybrid approach to performing a lazy pull of container images" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,401, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Hybrid approach to performing a lazy pull of container images" was invented by Giuseppe Scrivano (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a hybrid approach to performing a lazy pull of a container image. A file system in user space (FUSE) is utilized to lazy pull the container image, and manage file requests from the container while the container image is being fetched locally. During the retrieving, the FUSE may receive from the container, one or more file requests, and may temporarily block each of the one or more file ...