US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 4 for "Sustainability-based service function chain branching" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,056, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sustainability-based service function chain branching" was invented by Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to add environmental-impact and energy sustainability criteria and support to service function chains (SFCs). These techniques enabling steering of network traffic that carries energy sustainability related metadata within in an SFC based on energy sustainability or "green criteria." This allows for achieving, for example, so-called "green Operations, Administration ...