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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:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 04, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Li Long Chen, Beijing, CN;

Holger Karn, Aidlingen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system and program product for providing virtual configuration management for applications running in a virtual environment. A method is described that includes: receiving a request for application configuration information from a virtual machine for an application; retrieving a versioned configuration image for the application, wherein the versioned configuration image comprises formatted configuration information captured from a previously configured application; creating a configuration runtime instance from the versioned configuration image; and attaching the configuration runtime image to the virtual machine for the application.


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