Patents by Inventor Tim PEPPER

Tim PEPPER 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).

  • System and method for container provenance tracking
    Patent number: 11106512
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for container provenance tracking uses a build instruction file of a container image to output a new provenance document associated with the container image for distribution. For each file system layer of the container image specified in the build instruction file, an existing provenance document for the file system layer is inserted into the new provenance document. If there is no existing provenance document, information about each software component included in the file system layer is retrieved and inserted into the new provenance document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Nisha Kumar-Mayernik, Malini Bhandaru, John Hawley, Darren Hart, Tim Pepper
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTAINER PROVENANCE TRACKING
    Publication number: 20200183766
    Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method for container provenance tracking uses a build instruction file of a container image to output a new provenance document associated with the container image for distribution. For each file system layer of the container image specified in the build instruction file, an existing provenance document for the file system layer is inserted into the new provenance document. If there is no existing provenance document, information about each software component included in the file system layer is retrieved and inserted into the new provenance document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Nisha KUMAR-MAYERNIK, Malini BHANDARU, John HAWLEY, Darren HART, Tim PEPPER