ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,170, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Multipath routing for switching fabric" was invented by Derek Alan Sherlock (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching fabric uses traffic congestion information to inform its opportunistic use of non-minimal routes. An ingress port of a network switch collects traffic congestion information from the egress ports of the network switch. The traffic congestion information includes minimal and non-minimal route congestion metrics for the egress ports. Candidate egress ports for forwarding a packet to a destination nod...