Patents by Inventor Clint GREENWOOD

Clint GREENWOOD has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for creating a hierarchy of virtual machine templates in a virtualized computing system
    Patent number: 9652273
    Abstract: A virtualized computing system supports the execution of a plurality of virtual machines, where each virtual machine supports the execution of applications therein. Each application executes within a container that isolates the application executing therein from other processes executing on the computing system. A hierarchy of virtual machine templates is created by instantiating a parent virtual machine template, the parent virtual machine template having a guest operating system and a container. An application to be run in a container is determined, and, in response, the parent virtual machine template is forked to create a child virtual machine template, where the child virtual machine template includes a replica of the container, and where the guest operating system of the parent virtual machine template overlaps in memory with a guest operating system of the child virtual machine template. The application is then installed in the replica of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Howard Davis, Aaron Sweemer, Clint Greenwood, Benjamin J. Corrie, George Hicken, Zhenhua Yang
  • USING VIRTUAL MACHINE CONTAINERS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20160098285
    Abstract: A virtualized computing system supports the execution of a plurality of virtual machines, where each virtual machine supports the execution of applications therein. Each application executes within a container that isolates the application executing therein from other processes executing on the computing system. A hierarchy of virtual machine templates is created by instantiating a parent virtual machine template, the parent virtual machine template having a. guest operating system and a container. An application to be run in a container is determined, and, in response, the parent virtual machine template is forked to create a child virtual machine template, where the child virtual machine template includes a replica of the container, and where the guest operating system of the parent virtual machine template overlaps in memory with a guest operating system of the child virtual machine template. The application is then installed in the replica of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Scott Howard DAVIS, Aaron SWEEMER, Clint GREENWOOD, Benjamin J. CORRIE, George HICKEN, Zhenhua YANG