US Patent Issued to DigitalOcean on April 15 for "Method and system for addressing and executing serverless functions" (California, Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,861, issued on April 15, was assigned to DigitalOcean LLC (New York).

"Method and system for addressing and executing serverless functions" was invented by Anshu Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.), Perry Cheng (Princeton, Mass.), Rodric Rabbah (Somers, N.Y.) and Eric Sven-Johan Swildens (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serverless function execution system enables fast, efficient and flexible deployment and execution of serverless functions. Functions in the system are stored as code at a location accessible by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or unique hostname. A combinatorial URL, the combination of the two location...