ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,983, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Service routing using IP encapsulation" was invented by Darren Russell Dukes (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques directed to utilizing IP encapsulation to route data packets to different instances of a service in a network. In one aspect, a method includes generating a first request, which includes a first data packet and a first IP encapsulation; transmitting the first request to a service aware router, wherein the service aware router generates a second request that includes the first data packet and a second IP enc...