ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,331, issued on June 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Sustainable network-wide optimization service" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for optimizing network traffic distribution across multiple paths in a manner that is energy-efficient and environmental sustainability-aware. This may be achieved by leveraging time-series analytics and capacity planning based on seasonalities. Data ass...