ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,641, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Use of link utilization as a load metric" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Abdulla M. Bataineh (Vista, Calif.), Timothy J. Johnson (Sun Prairie, Wis.) and David Charles Hewson (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and computer-readable medium are provided which facilitate the use of link utilization as a load metric. The system monitors utilization of a plurality of links in a network. The system generates a link utilization load metric for a respective link of the plur...