ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,617, issued on Sept. 15.

"Method for self-adaptive service function chain mapping based on deep reinforcement learning" was invented by Erlin Tian (Zhengzhou, China), Wanwei Huang (Zhengzhou, China), Jing Cheng (Zhengzhou, China), Zuhe Li (Zhengzhou, China), Xiao Zhang (Zhengzhou, China), Weide Liang (Zhengzhou, China) and Song Li (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a self-adaptive service function chain mapping based on a deep reinforcement learning, comprising: establishing an SFC mapping model, dividing an SFC mapping process into a three-layer structure, and representing the structure with abstract para...