US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Automatically directing custom compute operational flows through a heterogeneous overlay and cloud compute infrastructure" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,053, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Automatically directing custom compute operational flows through a heterogeneous overlay and cloud compute infrastructure" was invented by Khalil Ayoub (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous overlay network and cloud compute infrastructure comprises different tiers of PoPs that are configurable to provide different amounts of cloud computing. To facilitate the programming (configuration) of compute and caching operations throughout the heterogeneous network, a control mechanism and methodology are provided for automatically directing t...