ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,480, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Point-to-multipoint transport chain" was invented by Yimin Shen (Sherborn, Mass.), Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Alexander Arseniev (Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates) and Ronald Bonica (Sterling, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node may receive a packet that originated from a root network node and may process the packet to determine segment identifier (SID) information associated with a point-to-multipoint transport chain. The network node may determine, based on the SID information, that the network node is a transit leaf node i...