ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,401, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Distributed network management system" was invented by Ajay Panchal (San Diego) and Ayman F. Naguib (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a distributed network having a first computer system communicatively coupled to a first set of network nodes, and a second computer system communicatively coupled to a second set of network nodes. The first computer system receives first data from a first network node representing a request for additional network resources; receives second data from the second computer system representing...