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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2018
Sitting Man, Llc, Madison, GA (US);
Robert Paul Morris, Raleigh, NC (US);
SITTING MAN, LLC, Madison, GA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable media is provided storing computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a first node in a network, cause the first node to: receive an Internet Protocol (IP) packet that includes a first identifier and further includes an outside-scope second identifier that, for the first node, identifies a first region that does not include the first node and that is communicatively coupled to the first node via a second node; select, based on the outside-scope second identifier and based on at least one of a policy, a metric, or a routing table, an outgoing network interface included in at least one path segment of a plurality of path segments that communicatively couple the first node and at least one other node communicatively coupled to the first region, the plurality of path segments including at least one multi-hop path segment; and forward, via the outgoing network interface and to the second node, data received in the IP packet.