US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 2 for "Enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and/or Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) for environmentally sustainable routing over the internet" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,354, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and/or Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) for environmentally sustainable routing over the internet" was invented by Ankush Ganpatrai Arora (Mumbai, India), Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India), Atahar Khan (Bangalore, India) and Ganesh Ramalingam Chelliah (Westmead, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for using a green score to improve environmental sustainability for routing traffic between and or/within autonomous systems (ASs). Node-level green scores are calculated based on environm...