US 12,388,907 B2
Connections aggregation among related devices for edge computing
Biljana Badic, Munich (DE); Babar Qaisrani, Issaquah, WA (US); Bernd W. Adler, San Jose, CA (US); Christian Drewes, Germering (DE); Matthias Sauer, San Jose, CA (US); Mikhail Wilhelm, Munich (DE); and Sabine Roessel, Munich (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/991,551.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/265,831, filed on Dec. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0199084 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 67/566 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/566 (2022.05) 17 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
processing a request for proxy services received from an edge group services entity, wherein the request for proxy services identifies a plurality of devices of an edge group;
generating, for transmission to the edge group services entity and based on the request, a confirmation of proxy services; and
based on the request, distributing edge group metadata to at least one device of the edge group.