US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on May 20 for "X-over-Y tunnel signaling and configuration, and use of configured X-over-Y tunnel(s)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,999, issued on May 20, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"X-over-Y tunnel signaling and configuration, and use of configured X-over-Y tunnel(s)" was invented by Satya Praveen Kumar Pasalapudi (Tracy, Calif.) and Kaliraj Vairavakkalai (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network operators can define port mappings for UDP destination ports and the encapsulated protocol/traffic type (X) in UDP. BGP may be used to notify the UDP destination port-to-traffic type mapping to an encapsulator. A generic UDP encapsulation mechanism (X-in-UDP), where UDP can be used to encapsulate packets of any user configur...