US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 2 for "Efficient and secure hop-by-hop routing in hierarchical multi-region-fabric networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,266, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Efficient and secure hop-by-hop routing in hierarchical multi-region-fabric networks" was invented by Arul Murugan Manickam (Mountain House, Calif.) and Basavaraju Halappa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an illustrative method herein may comprise: receiving, at a device in a computer network, a packet having an unencrypted header and an encrypted segment list, wherein the device is an authorized segment hop device and wherein a destination address within the unencrypted header matches an address of the device; decrypti...