ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,288, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) controlled network reliability" was invented by Huaimo Chen (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a first controller in a network comprising a cluster of controllers including the first controller and a second controller, the method comprises transmitting, to a network element (NE), a first BGP message comprising a first controllers network layer reachability information (NLRI), the first controllers NLRI carrying a position of the first controller relative to oth...