ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,726, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Systems and methods for service interworking" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.), Shraddha Hegde (Bangalore, India) and Krzysztof Grzegorz Szarkowicz (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interworking network device receives from a first other network device associated with an MPLS domain, a route that includes a label, a prefix, and a next-hop identifier that indicates the first other network device. The interworking network device thereby generates a prefix SID attribute that includes a SID value and information in...