US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Proactive path computation element to accelerate path computation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,996, issued on April 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Proactive path computation element to accelerate path computation" was invented by Domenico La Fauci (Monza, Italy), Andrea Zanardi (Padua, Italy), Lorenzo Galvagni (Nogaredo, Italy) and Pietro De Matteis (Trento, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed at a controller of an optical network configured with an optical path comprising a series of fiber spans for forwarding traffic: as a background operation to forwarding the traffic along the optical path, generating and storing precomputed optical paths as alternates to the optical path ...