US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on March 3 for "Application-aware BGP path selection and forwarding" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,042, issued on March 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Application-aware BGP path selection and forwarding" was invented by Israel Means (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Barry Elia (King George, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A routing structure is defined for provider edge (PE) routers that will create the ability to recompute best paths based on application criteria. The routing structure may include the use of a network controller which is connected with the internet to receive requests from applications to trigger path re-computation. The controller will peer with PEs to send re-computation information u...