ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,838, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Predictive fast reroute" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a router in a network reports, a supervisor, capabilities of the router to support fast reroute. The router receives a prediction model from the supervisor that is able to predict failures along a path in the network. The router predicts, using the prediction model, a failure along a primary path in the network that is currently being used by the router to send traffic. The router performs, in advance of the failure predict...