ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,872, issued on April 21, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, control method and program" was invented by Kengo Urata (Tokyo), Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo) and Shigeaki Harada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for allocating a virtual network to a physical network is disclosed. The control apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute a process including performing allocation of virtual nodes configuring the virtual network to physical nodes or determination of paths between the virtual nodes, based on a prediction value of an...