US Patent Issued on July 15 for "Virtual network function proof of transit" (Belgian, Italian, French, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,005, issued on July 15.

"Virtual network function proof of transit" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid) and Sonia Ben Ayed (Vanves, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for monitoring data transport in a network virtualization function (NVF) chain. A path tracing packet is generated having a Midpoint Compressed Data (MCD) to collect path tracing information of the NVF chain. The NVF node is configured to record an MCD containing Wide Local Path Tracing Identification (WL PT ID). The WL PT ID includes a first field having a value th...