US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Methods and apparatus for performing local lifecycle management with distributed SFC control" (British, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,871, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for performing local lifecycle management with distributed SFC control" was invented by Carlos Jesus Bernardos (Alcorcon, Spain) and Alain Mourad (Staines-Upon-Thames, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for performing local lifecycle management with distributed Service Function Chaining (SFC) control are disclosed. In an example, a method for wireless communications includes determining, in a Service Function Chain, that a first SFC controller of a set of SFC controllers is a primary S...