ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,234, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Logical fabric overlays" was invented by Michal Styszynski (Antony, France), Subramaniam Vinod (San Jose, Calif.) and Mahesh Kumar Subramaniam (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for overlaying logical switch fabrics upon a physical switch fabric comprising multiple physical switch devices. In one example, a network device determines an overlay network associated with a received packet. The network device determines a logical identifier that is associated with the overlay network. In some examples, the logical iden...