ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,633, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Handling execution of functions" was invented by Daniel Gehberger (Montreal), Zoltan Richard Turanyi (Szentendre, Hungary), Roch Glitho (Ville Saint Laurent, Canada) and Mohammad Abu Lebdeh (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method performed by an entity for handling execution of functions in a function-as-a-service (FaaS) system. The FaaS system includes one or more nodes on which functions are executable. The method includes grouping functions into a group of functions to be executed on a single one of the one or m...