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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Karthik Krishnamurthy, Chennai, IN;
Pawan Kumar Singal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Balaji Rajagopalan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mihai Lazar, Ontario, CA;
Dhanunjayareddy Madhana, Guntur, IN;
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods provide automated, lightweight, and centralized implementations for distributing and securely managing the lifecycle of containerized third-party applications on a cluster of network switches that typically have relatively limited computing resources. The deployed containerized applications may be seamlessly updated and expanded separately from the host network operating system without the complexities involved in a registry infrastructure, such as Kubernetes, Docker, or similar container orchestration platform, without compromising security, and without interfering with the common switching functions and switching protocols of switches in the cluster.