US Patent Issued to Telia on May 26 for "Methods and devices for switching data frames in a communications network" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,052, issued on May 26, was assigned to Telia Co. AB (Sweden).

"Methods and 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: "Methods and switch devices for switching data frames are described. A method performed by a source switch device may include receiving a data frame from a source host node, wherein the data frame includes a MAC address of the source host node and a destination MAC address; modifying the received data frame by modifying a part of the source MAC address in the received data frame with information comprising: the switch ID, a port...