ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,166, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ALKIRA INC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Flow management with services" was invented by Ramakanth Gunuganti (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a rapid node provisioning system comprising a cloud resource inventory engine, an orchestration service, a metrics engine, and a node provisioning engine coupled to the orchestration service through a datapath. The metrics engine collects metrics for components of the datapath and provides the metrics to the cloud resource inventory engine, which informs communications to the orchestration service, and the node provisioning engine autos...