ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,990, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).
"Migration of VNFs to VIMs" was invented by Johan Hjelm (Matsunami, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for migration in a communication network of VNFs to VIMs. A method is performed by a migration controller. The method includes obtaining information of network complexity per VNF, information of VM usage per VNF, and information of processing capacity of compute nodes per VIM. The method further includes determining a mapping between the VNFs and the VIMs. The mapping defines at which of the VIMs each of the VNFs is instantiable....