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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2012
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

James Uttaro, Staten Island, NY (US);

Eric Rosenberg, Lincroft, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/733 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/126 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a first regional network including a first network element; a second regional network including a virtualized control plane network element, the virtualized control plane network element supporting a routing protocol at the first regional network, the routing protocol employing a location-based cost model; and a network connection connecting the virtualized control plane network element to the first regional network, the network connection having a network connection cost, the network connection cost applied in the location-based cost model to support the routing protocol at the first regional network.


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