US Patent Issued to Telia on Nov. 4 for "Methods and devices for switching data frames in a communication network" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,898, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Telia Co. AB (Sweden).

"Methods and devices for switching data frames in a communication network" was invented by Babak Tamizkar (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for switching data frames performed by a source switch device may include receiving a data frame, including source and destination MAC addresses, and modifying a part of the source MAC address with a switch ID of the source switch device, a port number from which the data frame is received, and a reference number representing the part of the source MAC address. The method may also include including the reference number ...