US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 28 for "Decentralized wide-area network traffic engineering" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,165, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Decentralized wide-area network traffic engineering" was invented by Umesh Krishnaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Rachee Singh (Redmond, Wash.), Nikolaj Bjorner (Woodinville, Wash.) and Himanshu Raj (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system manages network traffic in a distributed system comprising a plurality of network devices. The network devices are divided into a plurality of network slices, each of the network slices including a subset of the network devices such that there is no overlap of network devices between the ne...