US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 13 for "Granular and efficient policy-based routing in software-defined edge networks" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,352, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Granular and efficient policy-based routing in software-defined edge networks" was invented by Ahmed Khalid (Carrigtwohill, Ireland) and Sean Ahearne (Ballinglanna, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Policy based routing in networks including software-based networks is disclosed. Packets ingested into a software defined network are altered to include a label header that identifies a source and destination of a packet. If the packets leave or egress the network, the packets are converted back to regular packets by removing the label header. Adding the l...