US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "SRV6 policy type for packet path tracing in large diameter networks" (Belgian, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,848, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"SRV6 policy type for packet path tracing in large diameter networks" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Ahmed Abdelsalam (L'Aquila, Italy) and Pablo Camarillo (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for enabling packet path tracing (PT) in large diameter networks that would otherwise exceed a hop limit imposed by hardware edit-depth limitations. Upon determining that a Midpoint Compressed Data (MCD) stack of a packet header is full, a PT Encapsulation and Copy (PEC) enabled midpoint node c...