US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Distributed software defined network architecture" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,275, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed software defined network architecture" was invented by Robert Shakir (San Francisco), Sylvia Ratnasamy (Berkeley, Calif.), Jayaram Mudigonda (Mountain View, Calif.), Ashok Narayanan (Lexington, Mass.) and Alexander Krentsel (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is a decentralized Software Defined Network (dSDN) which runs individual dSDN controllers at each router in the network, disseminating network state via an inter-router communication protocol. In some examples, the dSDN is an underlay and is coexistant wit...