US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 16 for "Overlay-based OAM for BGP fault detection" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,273, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Overlay-based OAM for BGP fault detection" was invented by Mankamana Prasad Mishra (San Jose, Calif.), Lukas Krattiger (The Woodlands, Texas), Frank Brockners (Cologne, Germany) and Nitin Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating and utilizing overlay-based Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) packets to detect issues with an underlay network. The techniques may include receiving, from a BGP peer device via a control plane path, an OAM probe indicating a forwarding path t...