US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 9 for "Providing a mediation layer between a virtual network function manager and virtual network functions supporting different protocols" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,477, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing a mediation layer between a virtual network function manager and virtual network functions supporting different protocols" was invented by Anand Chaturvedi (Manalapan, N.J.) and Thontadarya C. Telagi (Holmdel, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing a mediation layer between a virtual network function manager and virtual network functions supporting different protocols. A first command is received in a first communication protocol to perform an operation at a t...