US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on May 26 for "Cache-assisted service contact instance selection for computing-aware traffic steering networks" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,028, issued on May 26, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Cache-assisted service contact instance selection for computing-aware traffic steering networks" was invented by Shailesh Prabhu (Manipal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computing-aware traffic steering (CATS) network, such as those conforming to an IETF proposal, a service contact instance for a requested service is selected based on at least cache metrics associated with data cached at one or more egress nodes of the CATS network. In some embodiments, the selection is also based on compute and network metrics. In one implementation, ...