US Patent Application 18216412. SECURE AND ATTESTABLE FUNCTIONS-AS-A-SERVICE simplified abstract
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SECURE AND ATTESTABLE FUNCTIONS-AS-A-SERVICE
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Ned M. Smith of Beaverton OR (US)
Francesc Guim Bernat of Barcelona (ES)
Kshitij Arun Doshi of Tempe AZ (US)
Marcos E. Carranza of Portland OR (US)
SECURE AND ATTESTABLE FUNCTIONS-AS-A-SERVICE - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 18216412 Titled 'SECURE AND ATTESTABLE FUNCTIONS-AS-A-SERVICE'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract discusses the use of edge computing environments to bridge the gap between cloud computing and end-user devices. It introduces the concept of Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) and how it can be used to create different flavors of services. The abstract also mentions the use of a FaaS Temporal Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) to receive computing requests, break them down into FaaS flavors, create virtual networks for each flavor, execute the flavors, and return results. This approach allows for low-latency creation of virtual networks specifically designed for executing service requests.
Original Abstract Submitted
Software and other electronic services are increasingly being executed in cloud computing environments. Edge computing environments may be used to bridge the gap between cloud computing environments and end-user software and electronic devices, and may implement Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS). FaaS may be used to create flavors of particular services, a chain of related functions that implements all or a portion of a FaaS edge workflow or workload. A FaaS Temporal Software-Defined Wide-Area Network (SD-WAN) may be used to receive a computing request and decompose the computing request into several FaaS flavors, enable dynamic creation of SD-WANs for each FaaS flavor, execute the FaaS flavors in their respective SD-WAN, return a result, and destroy the SD-WANs. The FaaS Temporal SD-WAN expands upon current edge systems by allowing low-latency creation of SD-WAN virtual networks bound to a set of function instances that are created to a execute a particular service request.
