US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Feb. 25 for "Dynamic creation of overlay network slices using border gateway protocol flow specifications" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,974, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic creation of overlay network slices using border gateway protocol flow specifications" was invented by Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.), Vishnu Pavan Beeram (Hyderabad, India), Srihari Ramachandra Sangli (Bengaluru, India) and Chandrasekar Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a border gateway protocol (BGP) flow specification route associated with creation of an overlay network slice in a network, and may create a new routing instance based on the BGP flow specification route. The netwo...