ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,841, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fine-grained role-based segmentation in overlay network" was invented by Saumya Dikshit (Bengaluru, India), Balaji Sankaran (Bengaluru, India) and Badrish Havaralu Rama Chandra Adiga (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating segmentation by a first switch of an overlay tunnel fabric is provided. During operation, the system can receive a route update packet for the fabric. The packet can be based on a control plane that allows the exchange of route information via the tunnel and can include a first medi...