The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jonathan C. Barth, Collegeville, PA (US);
Nitin Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Sunanda Kommula, Cupertino, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed method may include (1) receiving, at a route server that serves an Internet exchange, a request from an autonomous system to join the Internet exchange, (2) obtaining, from the autonomous system, a policy that defines which routes pertaining to the autonomous system are to be shared with additional autonomous systems that have joined the Internet exchange, (3) obtaining, from the autonomous system, a plurality of routes pertaining to the autonomous system, (4) storing, at the route server, the plurality of routes pertaining to the autonomous system, and then (5) advertising at least a portion of the plurality of routes to at least one of the additional autonomous systems in accordance with the policy obtained from the autonomous system. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.