US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 25 for "Encoding forwarding policy data in multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) labels" (Indian, American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,500, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Encoding forwarding policy data in multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) labels" was invented by Kireeti Kompella (Los Altos, Calif.), Vishnu Pavan Beeram (Hyderabad, India), Swamy Sadashivaiah Renu Kananda (Cupertino, Calif.), Jonathan C. Barth (Collegeville, Pa.), Tarek Saad (Ottawa), Chandrasekar Ramachandran (Bangalore, India) and Srihari Ramachandra Sangli (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive an MPLS packet destined for a destination via a label-switched path (LSP), and may determine whether to apply a firs...