US Patent Issued to Calix on Sept. 9 for "Subscriber sharding across a broadband network gateway (BNG) cluster using a policy-driven load balancer" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,521, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Subscriber sharding across a broadband network gateway (BNG) cluster using a policy-driven load balancer" was invented by Anil Srirangapatna Nagesh (Bangalore, India), Michael Rollins (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Morteza Ghodrat (Oak Park, Calif.) and Nitin Gupta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central management component deployed in a cluster of broadband network gateways (BNGs) balances load among subscribers through the cluster by monitoring subscriber states comprising usage of the BNGs based on load parameters to detect an overload condition on ...