ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,507, issued on May 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Site network service design" was invented by Peter Louis White (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Calum Sutherland Loudon (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Paul John Brittain (Chester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A site network service (SNS) design is deployed in a computing system. A network function (NF) design is received and transferred to a data store. A network service (NS) design is generated that includes a reference to a NF design from the data store and a NS configuration including information for partially configuring the re...