US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 18 for "Intelligent function execution leveraging metadata" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,970, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent function execution leveraging metadata" was invented by Joel Christner (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Trevor Scott Conn (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Executing functions in serverless platforms leveraging metadata is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention related to using metadata when placing and/or executing functions. The metadata includes request metadata, container or function metadata, node metadata, and/or data metadata. The metadata allows a function to be placed and executed in a manner that accounts for user intent, c...