Function as a service (FaaS) system enhancements

US11922220B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Mohammad R. Haghighat · San Jose, US
• Kshitij A. Doshi · Tempe, US
• Andrew J. Herdrich · Hillsboro, US
• Anup Mohan · Milpitas, US
• Ravishankar Iyer · Portland, US
• Mingqiu Sun · Beaverton, US
• Krishna Bhuyan · Sammamish, US
• Teck Joo Goh · Kluang, MY
• Mohan J. Kumar · Beaverton, US
• Michael Prinke · Beaverton, US
• Michael LeMay · Hillsboro, US
• Leeor Peled · Haifa, IL
• Jr-Shian Tsai · Beaverton, US
• David M. Durham · Beaverton, US
• Jeffrey D. Chamberlain · Tracy, US
• Vadim Sukhomlinov · Santa Clara, US
• Eric J. Dahlen · Sherwood, US
• Sara S. Baghsorkhi · San Jose, US
• Harshad S. Sane · Southbury, US
• Areg Melik-Adamyan · Austin, US
• Ravi L. Sahita · Portland, US
• Dmitry Y. Babokin · San Jose, US
• Ian M. Steiner · Hillsboro, US
• Alexander Bachmutsky · Sunnyvale, US
• Anil Rao · Santa Clara, US
• Mingwei Zhang · Zhejiang, CN
• Nilesh Jain · Portland, US
• Amin Firoozshahian · Mountain View, US
• Baiju V. Patel · Portland, US
• Wenyong HUANG · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 16, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 5, 2024
• Expiry date: May 30, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06N20/00
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Embodiments of systems, apparatuses and methods provide enhanced function as a service (FaaS) to users, e.g., computer developers and cloud service providers (CSPs). A computing system configured to provide such enhanced FaaS service include one or more controls architectural subsystems, software and orchestration subsystems, network and storage subsystems, and security subsystems. The computing system executes functions in response to events triggered by the users in an execution environment provided by the architectural subsystems, which represent an abstraction of execution management and shield the users from the burden of managing the execution. The software and orchestration subsystems allocate computing resources for the function execution by intelligently spinning up and down containers for function code with decreased instantiation latency and increased execution scalability while maintaining secured execution. Furthermore, the computing system enables customers to pay only when their code gets executed with a granular billing down to millisecond increments.