IP Library › Granted Patent US 12,072,997
Granted Patent B2
US 12,072,997 · App. 18/469,549 · Granted Aug 27, 2024

Containerized build steps

Inventors: Jason Hall (Brooklyn, NY); David Bendory (Livingston, NJ); John Asmuth (Rutherford, NJ); Scott Zawalski (New York, NY); David Dopson (New York, NY)
Assignee: Google LLC
G06F21/6218G06F8/433G06F8/447G06F8/60G06F8/70G06F21/31G06F21/629
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Patent No.
US 12,072,997
App. No.
18/469,549
Granted
Aug 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method includes receiving a build request containing build step instructions from a user. The build step instructions specify a usage of containers within memory hardware for building an output container. The containers include at least one private container having private contents and/or at least one public container having public contents. The method also includes authenticating the user initiating the build request and determining whether the user is authorized to access the private containers. When the user is authenticated and authorized to access the private containers, the method includes obtaining the containers specified by the build step instructions from the memory hardware, executing the build step instructions to build the output container while using the received containers, and outputting the built output container.

Claims (38)

1. A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a build request comprising build step instructions specifying a series of build steps for building an output container, the series of build steps comprising:

at least two parallel build steps that execute in parallel; and

at least one dependent build step comprising a dependency constraint specifying a prior build step from the series of build steps that must complete execution before commencing execution of the at least one dependent build step;

executing the series of build steps to generate build results; and

building the output container for the user device based on the build results.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises at least one of:

a container identifier;

an environment field; or

a dependency constraint.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the dependency constraint further specifies the container identifier of the prior build step.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the build step instructions specify a usage of a private container or a public container for each build step of the series of build steps to build the output container.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the series of build steps of the build step instructions specifies both a public source and a private source to provide instructions for building the output container.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises a status identifier indicating an execution status for a corresponding build step.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a notification indicating that the user is authenticated and authorized to access one or more private containers identified by a respective build step.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing each build step of the series of build steps uses one or more virtual machines.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the output container comprises a build step record comprising the series of build steps specified by the build step instructions of the build request and an order of execution of the series of build steps.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the build step record further comprises start timestamps each corresponding to a start time when execution of a respective build step began and end timestamps each corresponding to an ending time when execution of a respective build step completed.

11. A system comprising:

data processing hardware; and

memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed by the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a build request comprising build step instructions specifying a series of build steps for building an output container, the series of build steps comprising:

at least two parallel build steps that execute in parallel; and

at least one dependent build step comprising a dependency constraint specifying a prior build step from the series of build steps that must complete execution before commencing execution of the at least one dependent build step;

executing the series of build steps to generate build results; and

building the output container for the user device based on the build results.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises at least one of:

a container identifier;

an environment field; or

a dependency constraint.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the dependency constraint further specifies the container identifier of the prior build step.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the build step instructions specify a usage of a private container or a public container for each build step of the series of build steps to build the output container.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the series of build steps of the build step instructions specifies both a public source and a private source to provide instructions for building the output container.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises a status identifier indicating an execution status for a corresponding build step.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a notification indicating that the user is authenticated and authorized to access one or more private containers identified by a respective build step.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein executing each build step of the series of build steps uses one or more virtual machines.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the output container comprises a build step record comprising the series of build steps specified by the build step instructions of the build request and an order of execution of the series of build steps.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the build step record further comprises start timestamps each corresponding to a start time when execution of a respective build step began and end timestamps each corresponding to an ending time when execution of a respective build step completed.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 27, 2024
From: DOPSON, DAVID
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 069422/0899 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2024
From: BENDORY, DAVID; ASMUTH, JOHN; ZAWALSKI, SCOTT; HALL, JASON
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 068368/0159 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2023
From: BENDORY, DAVID; ASMUTH, JOHN; ZAWALSKI, SCOTT; HALL, JASON
To: GOOGLE LLC
Reel/Frame 064946/0028 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2023
From: DOPSON, DAVID
To: GOOGLE INC.
Reel/Frame 064946/0054 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 17177150 · Feb 16, 2021
Continuation 17020771 · Sep 14, 2020
Continuation 16426447 · May 30, 2019
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