ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,048, issued on March 3, was assigned to Alkira Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-tenant VPN gateway protocol labeling and routing" was invented by Ramakanth Gunuganti (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud exchange platform includes policy-based routing. Labeling (or tagging) on a multi-tenant virtual private network (VPN) facilitates recognition of active routes for a flow. The tags can be implemented such that flows are treated as having active routes across a multi-tenant VPN to enable a customer to treat flows as having an identifiable active route through the multi-tenant VPN. Thus, for example, BGP can be used a...