US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE, RAKUTEN SYMPHONY on Dec. 16 for "System and method for traffic distribution with optical switch" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,665, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo) and RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for traffic distribution with optical switch" was invented by Parvez Khan (Tewksbury, Mass.), Nirav Salot (Bangalore, India), Vinay Vij (Gurgaon, India) and Praveen Konath (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of distributing traffic includes distributing, to a first distributed unit (DU), traffic via a first path, receiving, from the first DU, an indication generated by a first dry contact alarm of the first DU that a state has changed in the first DU, switching, by an opt...