ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,118, issued on March 11, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"Management system, and method for upgrading cluster" was invented by Jin Nakazato (Tokyo), Saki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Haruka Horiuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable automatic reconstruction when upgrading a cluster realized by virtualization infrastructure without performing manual reconstruction such as resetting, a management system comprising: an NFVI which, when a VNF in which an autodiscovery flag included in setting information is set to on does not exist, performs autodeployment of the nonexistent VNF; a DB which stores setting information fo...