ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,502, issued on April 29, was assigned to Harmonic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multiple core software forwarding" was invented by Adam Levy (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Pavlo Shcherbyna (Kyiv, Ukraine), Alex Muller (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Vladyslav Buslov (Kiev, Ukraine), Victoria Sinitsky (Haifa, Israel), Michael W. Patrick (Assonet, Mass.), Nitin Sasi Kumar (San Ramon, Calif.) and Anton Grichina (Kyiv, Ukraine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches for processing packets transmitted within a Passive Optical Network (PON) using executable software. Processing packets within a PON may be performed by classifying one or more pac...