ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,365, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Cloud EAS lifecycle management" was invented by Yizhi Yao (Chandler, Ariz.) and Joey Chou (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system are provided to provide the progress and result of lifecycle management (LCM) processes of an edge application server (EAS) virtual network function (VNF) in a cloud. The lifecycle management process information is included in the Network Resource Models (NRMs). An identifier to identify the management service (MnS) consumer initiating the LCM process is included in an EASFunction Information Objec...