US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 22 for "Updating running containers without rebuilding container images" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,268, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Updating running containers without rebuilding container images" was invented by Zhi Li Guan (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing), Kun Yang (Beijing) and Cheng Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing container updates is provided. A changed file corresponding to a new version of an application is retrieved from a persistent volume based on a mapping between the new version of the application and the changed file. The changed file corresponding to the new version of the application is loaded in a corresponding ...