ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,244, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Smart switching in edge computing" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for distributing packets for smart switching is provided. The computer-implemented method includes checking whether an edge device will complete a task relative to a data warehouse while having networking availability, deciding to proceed with the task using an extract, transform, load (ETL) strategy based on a determination that the edge device will co...