US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Software-defined networking (SDN) controller using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven weighted-cost multi-path (WCMP) to identify paths for data centers" (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,474, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Software-defined networking (SDN) controller using artificial intelligence (AI)-driven weighted-cost multi-path (WCMP) to identify paths for data centers" was invented by Ali Sydney (Pepperell, Mass.), Bengi Karacali-Akyamac (Bridgewater, N.J.) and MD Abdul Alim (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for using AI-driven WCMP to identify paths for data centers. Observations and rewards are used to generate a Weight Certainty Indicator (WCI) value and a Weight Sensitivity Response (WSR) value. For each disj...