US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 7 for "Segment routing: PCE driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path" (Belgian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,136, issued on April 7, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Segment routing: PCE driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path" was invented by Stefano B. Previdi (Rome) and Clarence Filsfils (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for path creation element driven dynamic setup of forwarding adjacencies and explicit path. In one embodiment of the method, a node receives an instruction to create a tunnel between the node and another node. The node creates or initiates the creation of the tunnel in response to receiving the instruction, wherein the tunnel comprises a pl...