ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,341, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ETHERNITY NETWORKS (Airport City, Israel).
"Longest prefix matching" was invented by Guy Soffer (Lod Business Park, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for routing using longest prefix matching. The method may include receiving a packet associated with a packet destination address; scanning, using the packet destination address, a tree that comprises multiple nodes to find a longest matching destination address prefix. The multiple nodes may include leaf nodes and non-leaf (NL) nodes. The NL nodes are associated with node boundary values that represent boundaries of destination add...