US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 3 for "Border gateway protocol dynamic route aggregation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,097, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Border gateway protocol dynamic route aggregation" was invented by Enke Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Jining Tian (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contributor-aggregator network configuration disclosed herein automates aggregation of network prefixes allocated to an autonomous system for a border network element dubbed a "contributor." The contributor advertises allocated network prefixes to an aggregator network element "aggregator" and additionally identifies and encodes aggregation length parameters according to a routing protocol...