ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,974, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for high availability of virtual network function" was invented by Seungsoo Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Insook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a network device in a communication system, includes: identifying information related to a first virtual network function (VNF); identifying a first operation mode of the first VNF; and determining a second operation mode of the first VNF, based on the information related to the first VNF and a deep learning model; and determining...