ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,097, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"Distributed edge computing system and method" was invented by Hiren Joshi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "a method for distributed edge computing (DEC) includes obtaining a request from a computational resource provider (CRP) offering computational resources of the CRP; validating the computation resources of the CRP; offering the computation resources of the CRP to a computational resource consumer (CRC); obtaining a reservation request from the CRC for a portion of the computation resources of the CRP; and installing CRC software on the CRP for DEC, where the...