ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,876, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for on-demand edge platform computing" was invented by Mohamed Negm (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing deployment of applications and services within a network having a plurality of edge platforms. A domain name service (DNS) request from a client device requesting for content from a third-party provider is modified to include location information indicating a client device location. A deployment manager uses the location information in the modified request to select a nearby edge platform for ser...