US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Oct. 7 for "Segment routing-based MPLS packet forwarding method and device thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,808, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Segment routing-based MPLS packet forwarding method and device thereof" was invented by Jeong Yun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Taesik Cheung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segment routing-based MPLS packet forwarding method and a device thereof are proposed. The method includes establishing a forwarding path in a Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network by receiving a packet, checking whether processing of a size of a label stack related to each node included in the forwarding path is ...