US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 29 for "Synthetic path tracing of segment routed networks" (California, Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,210, issued on April 29, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synthetic path tracing of segment routed networks" was invented by Hans Ashlock (Berkeley, Calif.), Bruce Alexander McDougall (Anacortes, Wash.) and Benjamin Haddox (East Dubuque, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains topology information for a segment routed network. The device generates, based on the topology information, segment routing label stacks to probe different paths between a source and destination in the segment routed network. The device conducts probing of the different paths during which synthetic probe ...