US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 16 for "Explicit over-power notification and power-based throttle eligible bits, path selection, and selective discard actions" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,227, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Explicit over-power notification and power-based throttle eligible bits, path selection, and selective discard actions" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for managing power congestion in multi-path routing systems. Indications may be similar to the ECN, and may be used in network headers, including headers for IPv6, SRv6, NSH, or other tunneling protocols. The indications, ...