US Patent Issued to Ciena on Feb. 17 for "BGP segment routing optimization by packing multiple prefixes in an update" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,478, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"BGP segment routing optimization by packing multiple prefixes in an update" was invented by Anil Dharmshaktu (Gurgaon, India), Varun Munjal (Gurgaon, India), Param Preet Dhillon (Gurgaon, India) and Piyush Sharma (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for border gateway protocol (BGP) Segment Routing (SR) (BGP-SR) update packing include negotiating with border gateway protocol (BGP) peers for packing BGP-Segment Routing (BGP-SR) updates, receiving a plurality of prefixes for a BGP-SR update message, encoding the plurality of prefixes with...