US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Sept. 16 for "Supporting stateful explicit paths" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,479, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Supporting stateful explicit paths" was invented by Pranjal Kumar Dutta (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting stateful explicit paths are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting stateful explicit paths may be configured to support communication of a packet along a path in an Internet Protocol (IP) network from a first node to a second node, wherein the path includes a set of hops, wherein the packet includes a tuple configured to identify the path, wherein the tuple i...