US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 3 for "Presence server for edge computing" (British, German, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,686, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Presence server for edge computing" was invented by Walter Featherstone (Cirencester, Great Britain), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mona Agnel (Guildford, Great Britain), Robert Zaus (Munich), Shu Guo (Beijing) and Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Uttenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge computing component is configured to receive application specific user information for a first application client (AC) user from a first user equipment (UE) with a first AC, receive application specific user information for a second AC user from a second UE with a sec...