US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Feb. 24 for "Chunk aware image locality scores for container images in multi-node clusters" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,340, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Chunk aware image locality scores for container images in multi-node clusters" was invented by Giuseppe Scrivano (Milan) and Mrunal Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed for managing replication in a deployable object, such as a pod (e.g., a group of one or more containers). For example, when a pod is started in a cluster, the deployable object may start one or more virtual computer systems (e.g., containers), which may pull (e.g., initiate and run) container images from a registry server. The proces...