US Patent 11509599 Edge quantum computing

Systems and methods are described for enabling quantum computing at an edge node of a network. For example, a machine learning component residing on each of a plurality of edge nodes of the network may be implemented to distribute application processing by network location and processing type, including distribution among classical processing at a central cloud, classical processing at an edge node, and quantum processing at a quantum edge node including a quantum computing device. By distributing certain applications, such as latency-sensitive applications of a higher order of complexity, to an edge node, and particularly a quantum edge node, latency may be reduced and complex application code may be processed more quicky using quantum computations. For applications to be processed using quantum processing, the machine learning component may further identify qubits for the quantum processing and define containers based on the qubits for deployment by the quantum computing device.