ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,281, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Routing improvement to reduce impact of out-of-resource condition" was invented by Jakob Heitz (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.) and Sameer R Gulrajani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, controllers, and network devices that reduce the impact of an out of resource event for a network device. In one example, a controller can analyze routing information to determine which of a plurality of prefixes are dispensable based on several factors, such as the specificity of the prefix, the frequ...