US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Local congestion mitigation" (Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,421, issued on July 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local congestion mitigation" was invented by Ralph Maxwell Williams (Leesburg, Va.) and Eleni Palkopoulou (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local Congestion Mitigation re-routes traffic around a congested network segment without regard for end point destinations of the re-routed traffic. By inhibiting consideration of end point destinations, determinations of alternate routes are simplified relative to techniques that compute new end-to-end routes for traffic when a congested segment is encountered. These methods therefore remain relatively efficien...