US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Capacity-aware local repair of tunnels in wide area networks" (California, Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,748, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Capacity-aware local repair of tunnels in wide area networks" was invented by Luis Irun-Briz (Sammamish, Wash.), Umesh Krishnaswamy (San Jose, Calif.), Himanshu Raj (Cupertino, Calif.) and Paul David Mattes (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions are disclosed that enable capacity-aware local repair of tunnels in packet switched wide area networks (WANs). Traffic engineering agents on the routers are programmed to create the tunnels and include sets of primary and alternate tunnels sharing the same source and destination. A...