US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 17 for "Mechanisms for packet path tracing and per-hop delay measurement in segment routing with multiprotocol label switching (SR-MPLS) networks" (Canadian, Belgian, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,140, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Mechanisms for packet path tracing and per-hop delay measurement in segment routing with multiprotocol label switching (SR-MPLS) networks" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy), Rakesh Gandhi (Stittsville, Canada) and Pablo Camarillo Garvia (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node receives a data packet. In response to receiving the data packet, the network node performs a lookup on a label stack of the data packet to determine a next hop for the data packet. The network node scans t...