US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Aug. 12 for "Controller-to-controller interface for multi-layer network abstraction" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,913, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Controller-to-controller interface for multi-layer network abstraction" was invented by Jonathan Colby Barth (Collegeville, Pa.) and Sudhir Cheruathur (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller at an IP (e.g., client) layer in a multi-layer network can request a network topology map from another controller at an optical (e.g., server) layer in the multi-layer network. The controller at the optical layer of the network can use a layer mapping function and common attributes between the formats used to describe the network topology map...