US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 17 for "Highly scalable container network interface operation to reduce startup overhead of functions" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,811, issued on March 17, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Highly scalable container network interface operation to reduce startup overhead of functions" was invented by Douglas Smith (Bolton, Vt.), Huamin Chen (Westboro, Mass.) and Ricardo Noriega De Soto (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a container network interface (CNI) specification that has been modified with a set of annotations, a set of operations, and a set of policies to provide network configuration reuse, network configuration replication, and database management (garbage collection) functionality are described. In re...