ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,476, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Computer multi-application deployment" was invented by Le Yue (Beijing), Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Si Yu Chen (Beijing), Han Wen Zhu (Beijing), Qing Yu Pei (Beijing) and Ming Lei Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques according to the present disclosure may include receiving, at a computer, a command for performing an action on a first image layer of a first container repository. A second container repository is determined which has a dependency on the first container repository, based on a dependency graph storing depende...