US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Virtual machine bootstrap agent" (Indian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,751, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Virtual machine bootstrap agent" was invented by Frederik Siegmund (Abingdon, Great Britain), Kevin Haritmonds (Pune, India), Paul Henri Carton (Houston) and Waikhom Imocha Singh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include generating, by a cloud computing service, a user virtual machine from an image virtual machine and a template comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) of a bootstrap script by: downloading, in the user virtual machine and from the URL, the bootstrap script, and executing the bootstrap script to install...