US Patent 7478162 Communications network

Patent 7478162 was granted and assigned to British Telecommunications Public Limited Company on January, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7478162

Patent Inventor Names

Ian W Marshall0

Christopher Mark Roadknight0

Date of Patent

January 13, 2009

Patent Application Number

10169558

Date Filed

January 24, 2001

Patent Primary Examiner

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Kenny S Lin

Patent abstract

An emergent network is autonomous at the service level. Network nodes have policies that enable them to process different types of service requests, with the processing earning the nodes ‘rewards’. Successful nodes can pass some or all of their policies to other nodes using the evolutionary biology of bacteria as a model.