US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Sept. 9 for "Serverless function colocation with storage pools" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,716, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Serverless function colocation with storage pools" was invented by Huamin Chen (Westborough, Mass.) and Noah Michael Watkins (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for assigning nodes to execute functions in a serverless computing environment. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a function for execution in a serverless computing environment and identifying a storage pool needed during execution of the function. The serverless computing environment may include nodes for executing functions and a f...