US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Sharded SDN control plane with authorization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,667, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sharded SDN control plane with authorization" was invented by Benjamin John Benardos (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anshuman Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alok Kumar (Fremont, Calif.), Anjin Guo (San Jose, Calif.) and Ujjwal Jain (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a software defined network (SDN) having a sharded control plane. The SDN may include a host device and a sharded control plane. The sharded control plane may include a first controller and a second controller sharded by one or more dimensions. The first cont...