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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Portworx, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joseph Jobi, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Goutham Rao, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Portworx, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/545 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01);
Abstract
A custom file system in a containerized software architecture facilitates the instantiation of application containers. Each container is composed of one or more application image layers. An application container instance includes read-only application image layer data shared among application container instances associated with the same application container. An application container instance may also include read/write application container instance data that is specific to the application container instance.