ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,079, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Management and orchestration in a hybrid applications environment" was invented by Sagiv Draznin (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Adam Scott Dorenter (Flemington, N.J.) and Donald Carl Hjort (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for application orchestration and management in a hybrid applications environment that comprises both VNF applications and CNF applications can include receiving an application descriptor that describes features of a new application to be deployed. A determination can be made, based at least in part on the ...