ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,478, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, control method and program" was invented by Kengo Urata (Tokyo), Shigeaki Harada (Tokyo) and Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus according to an embodiment is a control apparatus that embeds a virtual network for implementing provision of a service on a physical network, the control apparatus including: a first acquisition unit that acquires a predicted value of an amount of traffic of the service and a predicted value of an amount of power including renewable energy usable by each of physical nodes constituting the phys...