PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967494
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["726", "023000"]

Abstract:
Techniques for security scanning of containers executing within VMs. A virtualization system maintains container disk files that store data for containers. The container disk files are stored separate from, and not included within, virtual machine disk files that store data for the virtual machines. To scan data for any particular container, a scanning module scans the container disk file associated with the container. If a threat is found, a container scan catalog is updated to indicate this fact. A container may be disconnected from the network if identified security threats cannot be removed from the container. An entire VM may be disconnected from the network if all containers within the VM have threats that cannot be cleaned. The use of container disk files for security threat scanning allows for data for individual containers to be scanned.

Claim (Index 12):
A system, comprising:\n a host computer configured to execute a hypervisor that is configured to manage execution of a virtual machine (VM); a storage device configured to store a plurality of virtual machine disk files; and a security scanning module configured to:\n receive a request to perform a scan for security threats within a virtual container that has been instantiated and executing within the VM, wherein the virtual container provides a layer of operating-system-level virtualization on an operating system within the VM; \n identify a container disk file stored in the storage device and associated with the virtual container, wherein the container disk file is a separate file and not included within a virtual machine disk file that is associated with the VM; \n perform the scan on the container disk file to detect security threats; and \n update a container scan catalog based on whether a threat is detected in the container disk file.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08333
- Patent Class: 726.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14828549', '13866869', '14859378', '15647269', '15000056']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2656174885577724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5466527849261064
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2937210181946058
- Mean Citation Score: 232.026634
- Max Citation Score: 403.63943
- Similarity Product: 384.4651558913709

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test