US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 10 for "Docker-based plugins for hyperconverged infrastructure platforms" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,470, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Docker-based plugins for hyperconverged infrastructure platforms" was invented by Jason Ye (Shanghai), Tianming Zhang (Brighton, Mass.), Carl Shi (Shanghai) and Jia Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed systems and methods may retrieve a base image of a plugin for a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform and create a Docker image for an HCI platform plugin based, in part, on the base image. The HCI platform plugin enables an extended function not native to the HCI platform. Disclosed methods may include registering the Docker image ...