ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,573, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Harmonic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Virtual converged cable access platform" was invented by Michael W. Patrick (Assonet, Mass.), Nitsan S. Elfassy (Tel-Mond, Israel), Amir Leventer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Jeremy C. Rosenberg (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for a virtualized Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) for providing high speed data services to a remote physical device (RPD). The virtualized Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) comprises a core routing engine (CRE) for performing packet switching and routing and one or more physical or virtual compute ...