ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,713, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Function registry in function-as-a-service environments" was invented by Joel Evans Christner (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas) and Richard A Backhouse (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for maintaining a function registry includes: obtaining, by a function-as-a-service (FaaS) function registry manager of a FaaS environment, a user query parameter from a first client, wherein the FaaS environment includes a FaaS function registry; in response to the obtaining: comparing the user query parameter with metadata par...