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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2013
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Mark D. Carney, Sterling, VA (US);
Jeffrey A Jackson, Coppell, TX (US);
Dante J. Pacella, Charles Town, WV (US);
Theresa A Menzel, Manassas, VA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A cloud edge appliance (CEA) may augment the providing, by a remote cloud service provider, of cloud applications to a customer. The CEA may be installed at the customer premises and may provide a local access point for the customer. In one implementation, the CEA may provide a cloud-based application to a number of user devices, the cloud-based application being associated with functions, in which at least a first portion of the functions are implemented by the CEA and at least a second portion of the plurality of functions are forwarded, over a wide area network, to the cloud service provider.