US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on Jan. 28 for "Method and system for hybrid software defined networking in a terrestrial plus mobile network node network" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,400, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Method and system for hybrid software defined networking in a terrestrial plus mobile network node network" was invented by Rob Torres (New Market, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for simplifying interactions of a Software Defined Network (SDN) controller including: receiving a network program to traverse a mobile node network including mobile nodes and ground nodes, wherein the ground nodes include an ingress node and an egress node; forecasting links, based on a temporal line-of-sight topology, of the mobile node network be...