US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on June 3 for "Providing border gateway protocol deterministic path forwarding" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,317, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Providing border gateway protocol deterministic path forwarding" was invented by Kevin Wang (Acton, Mass.), Michal Styszynski (Antony, France) and Wen Lin (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may originate a route, and may designate the route as a first colored route having a first color. The network device may advertise the first colored route to a first intermediate network device to cause the first intermediate network device to propagate the first colored route to an ingress network device over a first colored border gatew...