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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. 21, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2023
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Francis McNamee, Newry, GB;
Paula May Tomaszko, Belfast, GB;
Andrew Jack Bell, Belfast, GB;
Robert Kerr, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2018.12); G06F 16/16 (2018.12); G06F 16/174 (2018.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1744 (2018.12); G06F 16/164 (2018.12);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided. A processor defines and stores units of image data of a container image, where the units of image data are compressible. A processor represents the units as nodes in a dependency graph for a container image, including one or more nodes at a dependency level in the dependency graph.