ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,936, issued on June 23, was assigned to AALYRIA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Aldie, Va.).

"Systems and methods for improving tolerance of delay and disruption of a control-to-data-plane interface in a software-defined network" was invented by Brian Barritt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems and methods for improving tolerance of delay and disruption of a control-to-data-plane interface (CDPI) in a software-defined network. A system can include a plurality of moving nodes and an SDN controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of moving nodes. The SDN controller can be configured to send a fir...