US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 26 for "Market-based approach to allocate energy-aware rights-to-operate in a green elastic network" (French, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,748, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Market-based approach to allocate energy-aware rights-to-operate in a green elastic network" was invented by Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device assigns a budget to a bidding agent associated with a networking entity in a computer network. The device obtains a bid from the bidding agent selected by the bidding agent based on the budget. The device conducts an...