US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 6 for "Initiator-based data-plane validation for segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks" (North Carolina, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,513, issued on May 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Initiator-based data-plane validation for segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks" was invented by Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Carlos M. Pignataro (Cary, N.C.) and Zafar Ali (Hicksville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for initiator-based data-plane validation of segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks are described herein. In examples, an initiating node may determine to validate data-plane connectivity associated with a network path of the MPLS network. The initiating node may stor...