ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,741, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Network route lookup operations" was invented by Matthew Ian Ronald Williams (London) and Alan David Elder (Welwyn Garden City, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to enhance the efficiency of computer networking devices through a streamlined routing lookup structure for storing network routes and processing network packets. The routing lookup structure can comprise a lookup table, a set of range tables, and a default range table. The lookup table can process a portion of a network packet...