ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,494, issued on May 27, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for optimizing the scheduling of O-Cloud nodes in a telecommunications network" was invented by Manmeet Bhangu (Indore, India) and Jyoti Bose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing the scheduling of an O-Cloud node, the method includes: determining a NF hosted on a O-Cloud node to be migrated to another O-Cloud nodes; sending a recommendation to the SMO to migrate the determined NF; sending instructions to implement the migration of the NF via an O2 interface to an O-Cloud management service; controlling the implementation ...