ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,517, issued on May 6, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Remotely updating routing tables" was invented by Bruno Rijsman (Arlington, Mass.), Usha Sharma (Fremont, Calif.), Prabhakaran Ganesan (Fremont, Calif.) and Sankar Ramamoorthi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive an instruction to update a data structure implemented by the network device and update the data structure based on receiving the instruction. The data structure may include a routing instruction to direct the network device to provide a data flow to a server device for processing. The network device may ...