US Patent Issued to PacketFabric, Cisco Technology on Aug. 5 for "Signaling intent to establish connections between autonomous systems" (American, Canadian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,955, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to PacketFabric Inc. (Culver City, Calif.) and Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Signaling intent to establish connections between autonomous systems" was invented by Patrice Brissette (Gatineau, Canada), Jiri Chaloupka (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Stephen Rodgers (Mountain View, Calif.), Bart Van De Velde (Adegem, Belgium), David Delano Ward (Capitola, Calif.) and Kenneth Gray (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for devices in autonomous systems to utilize a protocol, such as a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), to signal intent to instantiate services for establishing conn...