ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,258, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Weighting routing" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Robert L. Alverson (Seattle) and Edwin L. Froese (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of routing a data communication across a network having a plurality switches are provided by monitoring the operation of the plurality of global links to determine which of the plurality of global links provide working paths. A routing table indicative of a status for the plurality of links is maintained, where the routing table provides weighting...