US Patent Issued to Ciena on Oct. 21 for "Stitching a segment routing (SR) policy to a local SR policy for routing through a downstream SR domain" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,158, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Stitching a segment routing (SR) policy to a local SR policy for routing through a downstream SR domain" was invented by Divya Bhargava (San Jose, Calif.), Muthurajah Sivabalan (Ottawa) and Arif Aboobacker (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enhancing Segment Routing (SR) protocols are provided for enabling the stitching of a remote SR policy to a local SR policy. A method can include obtaining a Segment Routing (SR) policy for routing a packet along a path in a downstream domain, the SR policy including at least a destination fi...