US Patent Issued to Telia on July 28 for "Methods and switch devices for switching data frames in a communications network" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,697, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telia Co. AB (Sweden).

"Methods and switch devices for switching data frames in a communications network" was invented by Babak Tamizkar (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a data frame from a source host node that is connected to the source switch device, and modifying the data frame by replacing the source MAC address with a switch ID, a VLAN ID associated with a port of the source switch device, and a source IP address. The method may further include determining if there is a MAC address table in the source switch device. If the table is in the source swi...