US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Border gateway protocol (BGP) FlowSpec origination authorization using route origin authorization (ROA)" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,017, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Border gateway protocol (BGP) FlowSpec origination authorization using route origin authorization (ROA)" was invented by Yingzhen Qu (Addison, Texas) and Alvaro Enrique Retana (Addison, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a network node of a receiving autonomous system (AS) for verifying that a sending AS is authorized to issue a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flow specification (FlowSpec). The network node receives a BGP update message from a sending AS. The BGP update message includes a FlowSpec associated with a prefix of...