US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 14 for "Methods for distributing software-determined global load information" (American, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,545, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Methods for distributing software-determined global load information" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Joseph G. Kopnick (Chippewa Falls, Wis.), Andrew S. Kopser (Seattle) and Edwin L. Froese (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing routing in a switch network or fabric. Switches can be configured in a hierarchical topology having a plurality of groups, where switches in a group are connected to one another, and groups are connected to other groups. Routing c...