Professor Edmund Yeh was Awarded a Patent for Network and Method for Servicing a Computation Request

Professor Edmund Yeh was recently awarded a patent for his work on “Network and Method for Servicing a Computation Request.”

Prof. Yeh’s patent is a data-centric computing framework integrating joint computation, caching, and request forwarding. It includes a virtual control plane operating on request counters and an actual plane handling computation and data requests. The virtual plane implements a throughput optimal policy for adaptive and distributed computation, caching, and request forwarding in the actual plane. This approach outperforms baseline policies in request satisfaction delay across multiple network topologies.

Patent Abstract

“A framework for joint computation, caching, and request forwarding in data-centric computing-based networks comprises a virtual control plane, which operates on request counters for computations and data, and an actual plane, which handles computation requests, data requests, data objects and computation results in the physical network. A throughput optimal policy, implemented in the virtual plane, provides a basis for adaptive and distributed computation, caching, and request forwarding in the actual plane. The framework provides superior performance in terms of request satisfaction delay as compared with several baseline policies over multiple network topologies.”

Source: uspto.gov

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