Method and system for implementing improved containers in a global ecosystem of interrelated services

Patent 7401131 Issued on July 15, 2008. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 29, 2022. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Verizon Business Global LLC

Application

No. 10113691 filed on 03/29/2002

US Classes:

709/220, NETWORK COMPUTER CONFIGURING709/245, COMPUTER-TO-COMPUTER DATA ADDRESSING707/10, Distributed or remote access707/100DATABASE SCHEMA OR DATA STRUCTURE

Examiners

Primary: Lin, Wen-Tai

Foreign Patent References

0447038 EP 09/01/1991
WO 99/30494 WO 06/01/1999

International Classes

G06F 15/177
G06F 15/16
G06F 7/00

Abstract

A service container provides a runtime operating environment for services managed remotely, configured remotely, load their code remotely, and found and communicated with remotely. The container scheme is the concept of a generic service container into which arbitrary software services may be homed to a host server at runtime. Each virtual machine runs a small set of code which identifies it as a service container and registers it with registries for making the service container visible and allows for remote communication.

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