US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on June 16 for "Ping and traceroute in inter-autonomous system (AS) segment routing (SR) networks without requiring headend router or path monitoring system (PMS) controller knowledge of topology outside of origin AS" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,270, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Ping and traceroute in inter-autonomous system (AS) segment routing (SR) networks without requiring headend router or path monitoring system (PMS) controller knowledge of topology outside of origin AS" was invented by Kapil Arora (Bangalore, India), Samson P Ninan (Bangalore, India) and Shraddha Hegde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ping or traceroute functionality is supported in a path spanning multiple autonomous systems (ASes) having segment routing (SR) enabled, the path including an ingress node in a first autonomous s...