US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 3 for "Soft sleep activation of network resources in a green elastic network" (Dutch, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,058, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Soft sleep activation of network resources in a green elastic network" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device identifies an action to be performed in a computer network to reduce energy consumption by the computer network. The device determines whether performance of the action in the computer network will result in a performance degradation in the computer network. The device devises a rerout...