US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Prefix allocation management for network routers" (Washington, Illinois, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,803, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Prefix allocation management for network routers" was invented by Santiago Riesco Cruzat (Issaquah, Wash.), Zhili Hua (Herndon, Va.), Siyuan Yu (Chicago), Sai Sabarish Kankanvar (Herndon, Va.) and Christopher Winthrop (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for management of prefix allocation for a user network through distribution of prefixes to one or more virtual interfaces (VIFs) used to support communication of data between the user network and the network service provider. Management resource(s), which may be implem...