ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,405, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transmission device management device, transmission device management system, transmission device management method and program" was invented by Keita Nishimoto (Musashino, Japan), Kota Asaka (Musashino, Japan) and Junichi Kani (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter management device includes: a reception unit that receives a virtual switch configuration request from an upper management system; a determination unit that determines a plurality of paths including transfer processing by different optical transmitters on the bas...