US Patent Issued to NTT on April 14 for "Control apparatus, control method and program for allocating virtual networks for providing network services to a physical network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,818, issued on April 14, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method and program for allocating virtual networks for providing network services to a physical network" was invented by Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo) and Shigeaki Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network control device includes circuitry configured to narrow down virtual servers, to second virtual servers as candidates that are to be reallocated to nodes, based on changes in a cost for the nodes that are included in a physical network; and allocate a second virtual network of virtual networks, to the physical network, based on information ...