Patent ID: 11968121
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a program for causing a computer to function as units of a control apparatus including performing operations comprising:
creating route information including labels of communication apparatuses or links to be passed through, based on an input required condition;
dividing the labels included in the route information in units of anchor nodes;
compressing at least a portion of the labels included in the route information into a compressed label that can be expanded in at least one anchor node among the communication apparatuses determined based on the route information, so as not to exceed a processing limit of a communication apparatus determined based on the route information;
distributing information for expanding the compressed label to the at least one anchor node; and
merging compressed labels together in a range of not exceeding a processing limit of a communication apparatus determined based on the route information, and distributing information for expanding the merged compressed labels.