ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,636, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Traffic routing in single connection layer network" was invented by Giacomo Bernardi (Bologna, Italy), Seshadhri Comandur (San Jose, Calif.) and Ratul Mahajan (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network traffic between a source node and a destination node in a network fabric can be routed by using a routing table represented as a set of logical rings radiating from the destination node. The set of logical rings may include a neighboring ring containing neighbors of the destination node, a waypoint ring containing neighbors of network nodes in the neighbo...