US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 14 for "Inter-autonomous system (inter-AS) option" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,839, issued on April 14, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Inter-autonomous system (inter-AS) option" was invented by Zhaohui Zhang (Westford, Mass.) and Kireeti Kompella (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive, from a first other network device, a route that includes a label, a prefix, and a next-hop identifier. The network device may generate, based on receiving the route, a composite tunnel attribute that includes an identifier of the network device and a label allocated by the network device. The network device may modify, based on generati...