US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Cloud-based orchestration of network functions" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,987, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cloud-based orchestration of network functions" was invented by Manjari Asawa (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robin Satish Harwani (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to deploy an application is received at a network function management service of a cloud computing environment. Based on an expected geographical distribution of the application, a premise is selected from a set of premises at which computing resource are managed from the cloud computing environment. A virtualized network function of the application is executed at a resource located...