US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 7 for "Onboarding VNFs which include VNFCs that are composed of independently manageable software modules" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,309, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Onboarding VNFs which include VNFCs that are composed of independently manageable software modules" was invented by Keith William Melkild (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include a method comprising one or more of constructing a VNF package that includes at least one of a VNFD with one or more VNFC module descriptors or one or more VNFC module artifacts, generating a VNF package archive, receiving the VNF package archive containing the VNF package, processing a manifest file in the VNF package archive, onb...