US Patent Issued to Alcatel Lucent on March 25 for "Method, apparatus and system of charging for a data flow in SDN network" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,707, issued on March 25, was assigned to Alcatel Lucent (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Method, apparatus and system of charging for a data flow in SDN network" was invented by Zhi Wang (Shanghai), Hui Han (Shanghai), Yigang Cai (Naperville, Ill.) and Qiaobin Lai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The SDN control device is configured to determine a charging plan and a corresponding routing path for a data flow of a user. The charging plan is associated with a network condition-related rate of respective SDN service device in the routing path. The SDN control device is configured to configure the charging plan for the respecti...