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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:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2012
Applicants:
Ronald P. Doyle, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stephen J. Schmidt, Raleigh, NC (US);
Qingbo Wang, Beijing, CN;
Ruth E. Willenborg, Apex, NC (US);
Inventors:
Ronald P. Doyle, Raleigh, NC (US);
Stephen J. Schmidt, Raleigh, NC (US);
Qingbo Wang, Beijing, CN;
Ruth E. Willenborg, Apex, NC (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Virtual Machine (VM) is created utilizing a virtual Operating System (OS) disk and virtual application disks, each of which may be from disparate third party suppliers. One or more files in the virtual application disk are then linked to a specific file system location (node) in the virtual OS disk.