US Patent Issued to Google on May 26 for "Encoding source routes using MPLS sub-labels" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,015, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Encoding source routes using MPLS sub-labels" was invented by Alexander Krentsel (Berkeley, Calif.), Ashok Narayanan (Lexington, Mass.), Sylvia Ratnasamy (Berkeley, Calif.) and Robert Shakir (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for modifying use of segment routing multiprotocol label switching (SR-MPLS) allowing an arbitrary MPLS control plane and traditional MPLS data plane to utilize a single MPLS label to represent two or more edges in a path. MPLS labels may be divided into smaller sub-labels, which togeth...