US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 10 for "Segment routing network signaling and packet processing" (Canadian, American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,255, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Segment routing network signaling and packet processing" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussells, Belgium), Zafar Ali (Hicksville, N.Y.), Syed Kamran Raza (Kanata, Canada), Ahmed Refaat Bashandy (Milpitas, Calif.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Jaganbabu Rajamanickam (Stittsville, Canada), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada), Bhupendra Yadav (Kanata, Canada) and Faisal Iqbal (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a service chain data packet is instrumented as it is communicated amon...