US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 5 for "Information centric network distributed path selection" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,814, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Information centric network distributed path selection" was invented by Yi Zhang (Portland, Ore.), Hao Feng (Hillsboro, Ore.), Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Portland, Ore.), Nageen Himayat (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiruo Liu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for information centric network (ICN) distributed path selection are described herein. An ICN node transmits a probes message to other ICN nodes. The ICN node receives a response to the probe message and derives a path strength metric from the response. Later, when a discovery ...