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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. 30, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Snehal S. Antani, Hyde Park, NY (US);

Junjie Cai, Cary, NC (US);

Jia Fei, Shanghai, CN;

Wei Wei Gao, Shanghai, CN;

Heng Wang, Shanghai, CN;

Yan R. Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/468 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and system for sharing application objects among multiple tenants, wherein the method comprises: identifying objects that can be shared by multiple tenants; merging the objects that can be shared by the multiple tenants; and updating references of the tenants to the shared objects prior to the merging so as to cause the references to point at a merged shared object. The method of the present invention enables the tenants to share application data more efficiently.


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