US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 19 for "Using masque to tunnel ethernet frames" (Minnesota, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,380, issued on May 19, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using masque to tunnel ethernet frames" was invented by Vincent E. Parla (North Hampton, N.H.) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for tunneling Layer 2 ethernet frames over a connection tunnel using the MASQUE protocol are described herein. The MASQUE protocol may be extended to include a new entity, configured to proxy ethernet frames using a MASQUE proxy connection, and an associated CONNECT method, CONNECT-ETH. Using the extended MASQUE protocol, an Ethernet over MASQUE (EoMASQUE) tunnel may then ...