ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,902, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Deploying IPv6 routing" was invented by Jia Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shu Lin (Saratoga, Calif.), Jining Tian (Saratoga, Calif.) and Enke Chen (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for deploying IPv6 routing are disclosed. A system, process, and/or computer program product for deploying IPv6 routing includes advertising in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) a new address-family capability in combination with an existing address-family in a network that supports a plurality of address families, and undoing BGP filters to allow BGP ro...