US Patent Issued to Futurewei Technologies on March 3 for "Obtaining source routing information for packets in a computer network" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,046, issued on March 3, was assigned to Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Addison, Texas).

"Obtaining source routing information for packets in a computer network" was invented by Donald Eggleston Eastlake III (Apopka, Fla.) and Haoyu Song (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a Domain Name System (DNS) name server for providing Segment Routing (SR) Internet Protocol (IP) version 6 (SRv6) information. The method includes receiving a DNS query for an SRv6 resource record (RR) corresponding to a DNS name; determining whether data corresponding to the DNS name comprises the SRv6 RR in response to the DNS query;...