US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Method to build a service function chain in an overlay network" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,440, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method to build a service function chain in an overlay network" was invented by Arivudainambi Appachi Gounder (San Jose, Calif.), Edward Crabbe (Seattle), Madhu Venugopal (Cupertino, Calif.) and Stephen Stuart (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are provided for building a service function chain in a network that can remove the requirement to encapsulate packet level metadata or other packet levels in a service function chain. The approach allows for implementing service function chains while separating chain metadata fr...