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US 7190698
Network optimisation method
Current assignee: NetSocket Inc
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US7190698B2 — "Network optimisation method"
Title: Network optimisation method
Patent number: US7190698B2
Application number: US10/257,248
Priority date: 2000-04-13 (noted as an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Filing date: 2001-04-06
Publication date: 2007-03-13 (grant)
Inventors: Emil Svanberg; Joachim Johansson; Anders Torger; Joakim Norrgard; Anders Larsson
Original assignee: Operax AB
Current assignee (as listed): NetSocket Inc
Legal status (as listed): Expired – Lifetime; adjusted expiration 2024-03-05
Purpose / plain-language scope (per supplied text): The patent relates to optimising a network. Its classifications point to data switching networks, bandwidth/capacity management, routing based on requested QoS, and resource allocation—specifically distributed allocation of resources, "e.g. bandwidth brokers," including "among multiple network domains, e.g. multilateral agreements." Prior-art keywords listed are domain, network, bandwidth, domains, and bandwidth broker. Taken together, the excerpt indicates the invention concerns managing bandwidth and allocating network resources across multiple domains via bandwidth brokers. The classifications also reference MPLS/LSP label swapping, tunnels, SLA/QoS management, DiffServ, admission control, and traffic shaping, but the excerpt supplies no claim language or detailed description, so the precise claimed scope cannot be stated here.
What the excerpt does not establish:
- The actual text of any claim, the independent claim's scope, or specific embodiments.
- The abstract, detailed description, or drawings (images appear but are not rendered).
- Any legal conclusion on validity, enforceability, or claim interpretation.
- Whether listed assignees or dates are accurate (the source itself disclaims legal analysis).
- Litigation, ownership transfer, or prior-art details—omitted here per scope limits.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US7190698](/patent/US7190698)/en
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