US Patent Issued to Extreme Networks on March 3 for "Shortest path bridging (SPB) security group policy" (Romanian, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,118, issued on March 3, was assigned to Extreme Networks Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shortest path bridging (SPB) security group policy" was invented by Roger Lapuh (Uesslingen, Switzerland), Constantin Barcaru (Brasov, Romania) and Ludovico Stevens (La Roquette sur Siagne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for implementing a security group policy. Some aspects of this disclosure relate to a method for applying a security group policy. The method includes receiving a first frame from a source device and assigning a source security group identifier (ID) to the...