US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 17 for "Identifying a maximum segment size (MSS) corresponding to a network path" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,842, issued on March 17, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identifying a maximum segment size (MSS) corresponding to a network path" was invented by Dennis Gordon Montgomery (Burlington, Mass.) and Anna Yungelson (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for identifying a maximum segment size (MSS) for a path. For example, a first router includes a routing engine and a packet forwarding engine. The routing engine is configured to identify a path maximum transmission unit (MTU) corresponding to a path between the first router and a second router; and identify a maximum packet ...