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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Sitting Man, Llc, Madison, GA (US);
Inventor:
Robert Paul Morris, Madison, GA (US);
Assignee:
SITTING MAN, LLC, Madison, GA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/741 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01); H04L 45/566 (2013.01); H04L 45/745 (2013.01);
Abstract
In various embodiments, a method and apparatus are configured for identifying a plurality of segment identifiers by accessing a data structure that relates each of the segment identifiers to one or more nodes in a network, where advertisements are used to communicate the segment identifiers; assembling the plurality of segment identifiers into a segment identifier stack for routing of a message; inserting the segment identifier stack into a header associated with the message; and forwarding the message according to an entry in a table corresponding to a segment identifier of the segment identifier stack.