ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,171, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Micro SID packet processing" was invented by Nancy Y. Shaw (Cupertino, Calif.), Sharada Yeluri (Cupertino, Calif.), Venkatraman Chandrasekaran (Cupertino, Calif.), Sri Karthik Goud Gadela (Cupertino, Calif.) and Swamy Sadashivaiah Renu Kananda (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example first network device includes a control unit configured to execute at least one application and a forwarding unit. The forwarding unit includes an interface configured to receive packets, at least one packet processor operably coupled to a memory, and ...