ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,284, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Shared caching in a virtualized network" was invented by Borje Ohlman (Bromma, Sweden), Anders E Eriksson (Kista, Sweden) and Marcus Ihlar (Alvsjo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a virtual network device in a virtualized network to support shared caching in the virtualized network. The method includes receiving a request message for content, determining whether the content is available in a shared virtual cache, wherein the shared virtual cache is shared by a plurality of virtual network devices in the virtualized network...