US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on March 17 for "Name-based routing through networks" (Colorado, Louisiana, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,852, issued on March 17, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Name-based routing through networks" was invented by David Sutton (Monroe, La.), Steve Toms (Middleburg, Fla.), Shelley Goldner (Superior, Colo.) and Shelli L. Hurd (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing name-based routing through networks. In various embodiments, a broker manager in each of a plurality of networks may receive a subscription request for a network device from a client device, each device being locally accessible or disposed in an upstream or downstream network. The broker mana...