ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,862, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Wistron Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Configuration method and configuration unit thereof" was invented by Yuan-Fu Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration method and a configuration unit are provided. The configuration method is for a configuration unit coupled to a cluster. The configuration method includes calculating a first node number at a first time instant, and selecting at least one first node corresponding to the first node number from at least one node of the cluster. The at least one first node is configured to run a plurality of network functions of a c...