US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Routing based on hierarchical domains in a network environment" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,473, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Routing based on hierarchical domains in a network environment" was invented by Randy H. Zhang (Manassas, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a network device within a network domain determines routing information to exchange in a network. The network domain corresponds to an actual entity and includes a structure with a plurality of domains arranged in hierarchical levels corresponding to a hierarchy of entities of the actual entity. The routing information indicates at least one domain and hierarchical level of the structure. The netwo...