US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 16 for "Mitigation of congestion loss risk for MPLS local-protection with facility-backup" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,833, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mitigation of congestion loss risk for MPLS local-protection with facility-backup" was invented by Rafal Szarecki (Livermore, Calif.) and Jonathan Robert Mitchell (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosed technology is a process, apparatus, and/or system that provides a capability to automatically derive the bandwidth required for a given bypass tunnel, and use it to compute a compliant path across the network, without reserving bandwidth of a given bypass along its path. This may be implemented by computing (e.g., summing) the ...