ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,592, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Enhanced edge application relocation" was invented by Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.), Dale Seed (Allentown, Pa.) and Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is service continuity assistance (SCA) functionality that may assist in the relocation of edge application server instance between different edge nodes in the system. The procedures may include: 1) edge application relocation target prediction and selection; 2) defining and generating relocation trigger; 3) proactive relocation; or 4) multi-application and ...