ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,762, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"In-band control plane" was invented by Pranjal Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting an in-band control plane are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting an in-band control plane may be configured to support an in-band control plane in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. Various example embodiments for supporting an in-band control plane in an MPLS network may be configured to support an in-band control plane in an MPLS network by supporting exchange of...