Patents by Inventor Benjamin P. Alton

Benjamin P. Alton 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).

  • Image building
    Patent number: 9639558
    Abstract: An image is built. The building of an image includes selecting an image to be built, performing a hashing function on the image to produce a checksum, querying a registry for an existing image including the same checksum, and if no existing image including the same checksum is found, acquiring a parent image for the image to be built, building the image to produce a built image, adding the checksum for the image to the built image, and storing the built image in the registry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Alton
  • IMAGE BUILDING
    Publication number: 20170083544
    Abstract: An image is built. The building of an image includes selecting an image to be built, performing a hashing function on the image to produce a checksum, querying a registry for an existing image including the same checksum, and if no existing image including the same checksum is found, acquiring a parent image for the image to be built, building the image to produce a built image, adding the checksum for the image to the built image, and storing the built image in the registry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventor: Benjamin P. Alton