US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 25 for "Delay measurement for hybrid packet and optical transport networks" (Austrian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,641, issued on March 25, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Delay measurement for hybrid packet and optical transport networks" was invented by Christian Schmutzer (Koenigsbrunn im Weinviertel, Austria) and Luca Della Chiesa (Cesenatico, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by a gateway node that is at a boundary of the first network domain and the second network domain. The method includes receiving an end-to-end delay measurement request sent by the first node to measure end-to-end delay between the first node and the second node. The end-to-end delay measurement request is configured ...