Patent ID: 11916601
Assignee: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A relay network node for quantum routing, comprising:
a command receiver configured to receive, from a source network node of a plurality of nearest-neighbor network nodes connected to the relay network node, a first command indicating a destination network node;
a network-node selector configured to select, based on the destination network node, a next-hop network node from the plurality of nearest-neighbor network nodes; and
an entangled-particle manager configured to:
determine a number of current quantum-entangled channels between the relay network node and the next-hop network node; and
establish a new quantum-entangled channel between the relay network node and the next-hop network node in response to the number of current quantum-entangled channels being less than a threshold.