US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Dynamic QoS activation of critical flows under downscaled topologies in a green elastic network" (French, Dutch, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,992, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic QoS activation of critical flows under downscaled topologies 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 obtains an indication of an energy-saving action to be performed by an entity in a computer network to reduce energy consumption by the computer network. The device identifies one or more peer entities in the c...