US Patent Issued to OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLCNC on Feb. 18 for "Lifecycle management of a VNFC included in a multi-VNFC VDU" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,576, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLCNC (Durham, N.C.).

"Lifecycle management of a VNFC included in a multi-VNFC VDU" was invented by Keith William Melkild (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a VNFC LCM request including a VNFC instance (VNFCI) and an LCM operation to be performed, retrieving one or more VNFCI datum, determining a target OS installation of the VNFCI, establishing a connection to the target OS installation, checking for the presence of a VNFC specific LCM script for the LCM operation to be performed, constructing a VNFC specif...