US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 25 for "Virtual channel balancing in ring-based topologies" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,497, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Virtual channel balancing in ring-based topologies" was invented by Brian Patrick Towles (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Hojat Parta (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for routing data packets in ring network. A data packet being transmitted to a destination node may be received by a first structure at a first node. The first node may determine a number of hops the data packet will traverse as it is transmitted from the first node to the destination node and compare the determined number of hops to a threshold hop value to determine wheth...