Application virtualization innovator VirtaMove announced today the granting
of an important new foundational patent by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office. Building on the family of previous patents for VirtaMove's
container technology, the new and existing patents support and underly critical
capabilities, including:
- Isolating
applications from one another and from the underlying operating system
(OS) to avoid application conflict. Isolation also limits any malware or
virus to a single container, protecting other applications and the OS.
- The
ability to package unmodified desktop and server-side applications from
old operating systems for secure delivery to, and execution on, new OS
versions. This is the upleveling of an application to a modern OS.
- The
packaging of fully configured applications and their dependencies into a
portable, reusable, OS-free virtual container, which can be copied and run
quickly without installation.
- Rapid
provisioning of server business applications from a data center to, from,
and across clouds.
Says VirtaMove CEO Nigel Stokes, "At the end of the day, customers care
more about solutions than about patents. They want the ability to move legacy
applications to new, modern platforms and run them, quickly and efficiently.
However, what our growing family of container patents does prove is the
uniqueness of the VirtaMove solution. Our patents prove our continuous
investment in innovative research and development in building unique,
customer-driven solutions."
The specific granted patent covered in this announcement is:
Patent #10,540,175
Title: Up-level Applications to a New OS
Other important patents in the VirtaMove family include:
Patent # 7,757,291
Title: Malware Containment by Application Encapsulation
Patent # 7,774,762
Title: System Including Run-Time Software to Enable a Software Application to
Execute on an Incompatible Computer Platform
Patent # 7,784,058
Computing System Having User Mode Critical System Elements as Shared Libraries