ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,683, issued on June 24, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).
"Router fluidity using tunneling" was invented by John R. B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.), Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.), Brian J. Strong (St. Louis) and Stewart Bamford (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes a system and method for utilizing a tunnel in a networking routing protocol to provide a network segment access to additional servers when certain load balancing trigger events are detected."
The patent was filed on July 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/770,106.
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