US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 25 for "Encapsulating an SCTP packet in a UDP packet" (Swedish, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,408, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Encapsulating an SCTP packet in a UDP packet" was invented by Claudio Porfiri (Stockholm), Carlo Vitucci (Solna, Sweden), Angelo Centonza (Granada, Spain) and Gino Luca Masini (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method for enabling an SCTP packet to be encapsulated in a UDP packet the method being performed by a source network node. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a source number based on an identifier of the source network node; obtaining a destination number based on an identifier of a destination network...