MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544096014 A) filed by Nokia Solutions And Networks Oy, Espoo, Finland, on Oct. 6, 2025, for 'embedded protocol overlay for a network control protocol.'

Inventor(s) include Pranjal Kumar Dutta.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The subject disclosure introduces the concept of using an overlay protocol embedded in a network control protocol. In various embodiments, an embedded overlay protocol message can be carried as the payload in a network control protocol packet sent from one network device to another. Various embodiments p...