ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,378, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).
"Advertisement of routing information in network management" was invented by Yoshimi Okada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit (21) configured to acquires IP prefix information managed in each of one or more subnetworks in a first network as routing information; an aggregation unit (22) configured to generate aggregated IP prefix information which is an aggregation of the IP prefix information managed in each of the one or more subnetworks as aggregated routing information; and an advertising unit (23) ...