US Patent Issued to Omnissa on Dec. 2 for "Virtual computing instance based system to support union mount on a platform" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,974, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Virtual computing instance based system to support union mount on a platform" was invented by Junfei Wu (Beijing), Xiaodong Ye (Beijing), Haiwei Zhao (Beijing) and Chen Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are a system and method for combining folders in a host operating system lacking a facility for performing the combining. A helper virtual machine (VM) is formed and runs a guest operating system with a facility for combining folders such as a union mount facility. The host operating system also runs a host/guest file-sharing server ...