MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202521002446 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited on January 10, 2025, for Method And System For Splitting Artificial Neural Network (ann) With A Distributed Communication Framework.
Inventors include Bhattacharyya, Abhijan; Sau, Ashis; and Mahato, Suraj Kumar.
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: ABSTRACT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPLITTING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (ANN) WITH A DISTRIBUTED COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK Embodiments herein provide a method and system for splitting an artificial neural network (ANN) between edge devices (edge) and a user equipment (UE) under supervision of an application cloud (AC) through a unified splitting artificial intelligence (AI) framework (SAF). In AI operation splitting, a few layers of the artificial neural network (ANN) are computed at the endpoint itself. The intermediate result is transferred to the Edge/ Cloud for further computation. Besides distributing the computation load, this has another important advantage. If the first few layers of the ANN are computed at the endpoint itself, then that saves the resources required for transmission of the entire input signal because the intermediate result needs much less bandwidth than the actual input. Also, the ANN could start in the offloaded node only after receiving the entire input. So, splitting the ANN computation is beneficial in terms of the total computation latency as well. [
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