US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 29 for "System and method for SDN orchestration validation" (Georgia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,346, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"System and method for SDN orchestration validation" was invented by Dylan Reid (Atlanta) and Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an orchestrator for a software-defined network and configured to receive a request for operation of the software-defined network, a software-defined network controller in communication with the orchestrator through a northbound application programming interface, at least one network element in communication with the software defined network controller though a southbound application...