ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,071, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Fulton, Md.).
"Network cut analysis using GPU acceleration" was invented by John Wade Cherrington (Salt Spring Island, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include for network cut analysis include storing a routing matrix and a traffic matrix in processing hardware that is configured for matrix multiplication; receiving a request from a controller for one or more cuts in the network with the one or more cuts represented in a path-selective traffic vector that is used to mask out any of the plurality of links associated with the one or more cuts and to shape the t...