US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Automatic redeploying/upgrading of containers on multiple nodes in an information technology infrastructure based on unavailable patches" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,247, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic redeploying/upgrading of containers on multiple nodes in an information technology infrastructure based on unavailable patches" was invented by Xiao Ling Chen (Beijing), Juliet Candee (Brewster, N.Y.), Heng Wang (Beijing) and Qi Ye (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic redeploying/upgrade of containers on multiple nodes using an Automated Deployment Software (ADS) having an Automated Deployment Tool (ADT) includes updating the ADS with a planned patch of a target layer, introducing a patchname sync command into the ADT ...