ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,436, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for deploying virtual machine and container, and related apparatus" was invented by Xueliang Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a method for deploying a virtual machine (VM) and a container to implement both container deployment and VM deployment in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system. In the method, a unified orchestration function entity receives a deployment request, and determines that a deployment manner of an application is the container deployment or the VM deploymen...