US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Granularity aware end-to-end bandwidth reservation and routing path selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,727, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Granularity aware end-to-end bandwidth reservation and routing path selection" was invented by Lijun Dong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Aihua Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Alexander Clemm (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Optical Transport Network (OTN) node, a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller, and a path selection method for selecting in the OTN node or SDN controller a path for an Internet traffic flow with an underlying OTN are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of paths for the traffic flow through th...