US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Nov. 11 for "Deadlock prevention of switch memory overflow" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,485, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Deadlock prevention of switch memory overflow" was invented by Andrea Enrici (Bourg la Reine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments disclose a method for avoiding deadlock in a network includes generating a finite state machine indicating possible routing decisions of incoming packets for a plurality of switches, analyzing the finite state machine, determining at least one memory overflow state based on the analyzing, generating at least one anti-deadlock rule in response to determining the at least one memory overflow state...