US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Aug. 12 for "Method and apparatus for using local area network as service for edge cloud" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,767, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for using local area network as service for edge cloud" was invented by Rohit Abhishek (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Spencer Dawkins (Garland, Texas) and Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for receiving, by a plurality of user devices within a Local Area Network (LAN), a request to create a local cloud within the LAN, selecting, by one of the plurality of user devices, a master device from among the plurality of user devices, and one or more devices from among the plurality of user devices based on a...