US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "Method and apparatus for a software defined network" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,605, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for a software defined network" was invented by Giuseppe Celozzi (Naples, Italy) and Pietro Picaro (Formia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) performed by an apparatus in a Software Defined Network, SDN, the method comprising: receiving (102) a request to define a virtual link, VL, in the SDN, the request including security constraint information for the VL; identifying (104) from a network topology of the SDN physical links that are Quantum Cryptography, QC, enabled; computing (106) a path for the VL us...