US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 3 for "Using UDP port numbers for service delimiting, such as for delimiting virtual routing and forwarding instances in layer 3 tunnels" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,047, issued on March 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Using UDP port numbers for service delimiting, such as for delimiting virtual routing and forwarding instances in layer 3 tunnels" was invented by Wen Lin (Andover, Mass.), Kevin Wang (Acton, Mass.) and Kireeti Kompella (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different services through Virtual Routing and Forwarding instances (VRFs) are identified without needing a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) label or a Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (VXLAN) Network Identifier (VNI) by using, for example, different UDP port numbers to identif...