US Patent Issued to Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences on Jan. 20 for "Encoding and decoding method and system for route origin authorization (ROA)" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,833, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing).

"Encoding and decoding method and system for route origin authorization (ROA)" was invented by Yanbiao Li (Beijing), Gaogang Xie (Beijing), Hui Zou (Beijing), Yuxuan Chen (Beijing), Yinbo Xu (Beijing) and Zhuoran Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are an encoding method and system for ROAs. The encoding method includes the following steps: given a set of authorized IP prefixes an AS which are maintained with an IP address trie. By specifying a sequence of hanging levels on the IP address trie, it is di...