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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Qin Yue Chen, Shanghai, CN;

Xin Peng Liu, Beijing, CN;

Han Su, Shanghai, CN;

Fei Fei Li, Huang Pu, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/658 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/658 (2018.02); G06F 8/433 (2013.01); G06F 8/63 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 11/0712 (2013.01); G06F 11/142 (2013.01); G06F 21/57 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2201/815 (2013.01);
Abstract

Automatic application of software patches to software associated with container images based upon image relationships in a dependency tree. The computing device determines whether software associated with a base container image requires software patches. The computing device accesses dependency trees maintaining image relationships between the base container image and dependent container images. The computing device determines based upon the accessed one or more dependency trees whether the base container image has dependent container images derived from the base container image. The computing device applies software patches to the software associated with the base container image. The computing device rebuilds the base container image with the applied software patches. The computing device then rebuilds the dependent container images dependent upon the rebuilt base container image.


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