US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 15 for "Multi-protocol service chaining among devices of interconnected topology" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,030, issued on July 15, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multi-protocol service chaining among devices of interconnected topology" was invented by Ankur Tandon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vivekananda Shenoy (Singapore), Jacopo Pianigiani (Cupertino, Calif.) and Abhinav Pandit (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual network controllers are described that automatically generate policies and configuration data for routing traffic through physical network function (PNF) service chains in a multi-tenant data center. An example network controller includes a memory and processing circuitry configured to...