US Patent 10324734 Application containers

In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a supervisor component executing at a computing device, a request to execute an application, and determining, by the supervisor component, whether any application container is currently allocated for the application. The method may also include, responsive to determining that an application container is currently allocated for the application: activating, by the supervisory, the application container currently allocated for the application, and executing, by the application container for the application, the application, and, responsive to terminating execution of the application, deactivating, by the supervisor component, the application container for the application.