US Patent Issued to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on April 21 for "Source routing apparatus and method in ICN" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,895, issued on April 21, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Source routing apparatus and method in ICN" was invented by Hak Suh Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Nam Seok Ko (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sun Me Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein a source routing apparatus and method in ICN. The method includes: receiving an interest packet; extracting a current entry value when the received interest packet includes a forwarding hint; using the extracted current entry value as an index of a path list; extracting a name of the interest packet; re...