ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,633, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for supporting network-based computing services" was invented by Xu Li (Kanata, Canada) and Hang Zhang (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing a computing service on edge nodes of a communication network, where the computing service is made from a plurality of service functions, each of which is connected to another service function by a communication routine. Service functions and routines can be deployed on edge nodes and communication between any two service functions can be performed via a ...