US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 2 for "Joint consideration of service function placement and definition for deployment of a virtualized service" (Hungarian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,835, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Joint consideration of service function placement and definition for deployment of a virtualized service" was invented by Robert Szabo (Budapest, Hungary), Massimiliano Maggiari (Pleasanton, Calif.), Michael Martin (Wake Forest, N.C.), Akos Recse (Halasztelek, Hungary) and Balazs Nemeth (Nagyalasony, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of deployment of a virtualized service on a cloud infrastructure are described. A first service function specification of a first service function is selected. A determination of a set of...