US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 18 for "Reliable virtualized network function system for a cloud computing system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,986, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reliable virtualized network function system for a cloud computing system" was invented by Bozidar Radunovic (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthew John Balkwill (Townbridge, Great Britain), Noel Andrew Bainbridge (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yongguang Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Antonios Katsarakis (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reliable network function virtualization (rVNF) system includes a virtualized network function (VNF) application instance that includes a plurality of physical VNF instances. A load balancer p...