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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Applicant:
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Inventors:
John Mulligan, Brick, NJ (US);
Han Q. Nguyen, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Samir Saad, Ocean, NJ (US);
Jacobus Van Der Merwe, New Providence, NJ (US);
Simon Zelingher, Morganville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/759 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/727 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/08 (2013.01); H04L 41/0654 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/028 (2013.01); H04L 45/121 (2013.01); H04L 45/123 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described that manage routing information in an IP network using extensible indexing and use the indexing to control the network. The indexing and associated controls apply to any router within the routing domain.