US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on May 6 for "Service function chaining in stateful network" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,524, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Service function chaining in stateful network" was invented by Bhavit Shah (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network is programmed to, based on a service function policy, determine a first service function chain of services to apply to outbound packets of a first type that arrive at a serving gateway; upon classifying a first outbound packet arriving at the serving gateway as the first type based on an identifier of the first outbound packet, route the first outbound packet to the services of the first service function chain; map the ...