US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 9 for "Scheduled FIB to account for intermittent connectivity due to orbital dynamics" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,999, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scheduled FIB to account for intermittent connectivity due to orbital dynamics" was invented by Plamen Nedeltchev (San Jose, Calif.) and Bruce McDougall (Anacortes, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for network communication within a Lunar and Interplanetary communication system. In one aspect, a length of time of line of sight occlusion associated with an object is determined based on a position of the object within its orbit. A dynamic forwarding table is generated that schedules pac...