Patents by Inventor Chi L. Zhang

Chi L. Zhang 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).

  • Migrating servers into a secured environment
    Patent number: 9652263
    Abstract: In one approach, one or more computer processors provision an instance in a cloud computing environment, wherein the instance includes one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors boot the instance from a boot image such that an operating system exists in a main memory of the instance. The one or more computer processors copy an image file to the one or more local disks of the instance, where copying the image file overwrites the one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors reboot the instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Florian D. Graf, Michael E. Nidd, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Rudiger Rissmann, Gerhard Widmayer, Min Xiang, Li Juan Xiao, Shao Yang Yu, Chi L. Zhang
  • MIGRATING SERVERS INTO A SECURED ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20160364252
    Abstract: In one approach, one or more computer processors provision an instance in a cloud computing environment, wherein the instance includes one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors boot the instance from a boot image such that an operating system exists in a main memory of the instance. The one or more computer processors copy an image file to the one or more local disks of the instance, where copying the image file overwrites the one or more local disks. The one or more computer processors reboot the instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Florian D. Graf, Michael E. Nidd, Birgit M. Pfitzmann, Rudiger Rissmann, Gerhard Widmayer, Min Xiang, Li Juan Xiao, Shao Yang Yu, Chi L. Zhang