ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,847, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Source load balancing of data packets" was invented by Rashmi Garg (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jon Langemak (Rockford, Minn.), Jerome Tollet (Paris), Benoit Ganne (Malakoff, France) and Arthur de Kerhor (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for load balancing at the source side rather than the destination side of a network. Destination networks can communicate with source load balancers by transmitting network protocol advertisements such as border gateway protocol (BGP) advertisements. The advertisements can communicate prefixes repres...