US Patent Issued to JUNIPER NETWORKS on Sept. 23 for "Network service discovery" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,482, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JUNIPER NETWORKS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Network service discovery" was invented by Michael Henkel (Saratoga, Calif.), Mahesh Sivakumar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Richard Roberts (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for a computing system comprising processing circuitry having access to a storage device, the processing circuitry configured to encode, by a network controller executing in a software defined network (SDN), one or more attributes with information identifying a network service, wherein the one or more attributes conform to a routing protocol. The ...