US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on March 4 for "Dynamic segment routing mapping server for a multiprotocol label switching network" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,497, issued on March 4, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Dynamic segment routing mapping server for a multiprotocol label switching network" was invented by Eric Osborne (Sutton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic SRMS (DSRMS) in a MPLS network generates unique segment identifiers for nodes of the network lacking segment identifiers (SIDs). The DSRMS receives network information from other nodes of the network that may include, for example, Internal Gateway Protocol (IGP) routing information, advertised prefix values for the nodes, and label values used in MPLS routing. The DSRMS analyzes the informat...