US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Feb. 17 for "Route cost based on route metrics and path type preference" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,471, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Route cost based on route metrics and path type preference" was invented by Abilash Menon (Boxborough, Mass.), Markus Jork (Andover, Mass.) and John M. Peterson (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for computing a cost of an advertised route to a next-hop network device along a path to a destination based at least in part on a preference for the path. In one example, a computing system computes a cost of a route to a next-hop network device along a path to a destination. The computed cost is based at least in part ...