US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 29 for "Distributing service function chain data and service function instance data in a network" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,235, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Distributing service function chain data and service function instance data in a network" was invented by Eric C. Rosen (Arlington, Mass.), John E. Drake (Pittsburgh), William Stuart Mackie (Carmel, N.Y.) and Adrian John Farrel (Llangollen, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing device comprises a first service function instance to apply a service function and a service function forwarder to: receive a first layer 3 routing protocol route advertisement that includes service function instance data for a second servic...