ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,642, issued on March 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Node management method, device and apparatus, storage medium, and system" was invented by Baoguo Xie (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node management method, a node management apparatus, a cluster node manager, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a network function virtualization system are disclosed. The node management method may include: receiving node life cycle management information (S11); performing life cycle management on a node according to the node life cycle management information, where the node life cycle management ...