ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,738, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cornelis Networks Inc. (Wayne, Pa.).
"Virtual routing fields" was invented by Gary Muntz (Lexington, Mass.) and Mark Atkins (Wayne, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch including a plurality of ports; a management processor; and a switch core configured to receive a packet for transmission including a destination local ID ('DLID') and a virtual routing field ('VRF) augmenting the routing of the packet on a route to the DLID according to a particular routing algorithm in dependence upon the VRF."
The patent was filed on Dec. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/544,407.
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