US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on May 27 for "Apparatus, system, and method for optimizing storage usage in connection with segment identifiers" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,531, issued on May 27, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method for optimizing storage usage in connection with segment identifiers" was invented by Anish Nayyar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may include (1) at least one storage device configured to store a plurality of SIDs and (2) at least one processing device configured to (A) insert, into the storage device, a single instance of a SID corresponding to a multihomed network segment and/or (B) advertise the SID to a remote network device for aliasing to enable the remote network device to load-bala...