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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:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 21, 1999
Dirk Ooms, Antwerp, BE;
Wim Livens, Reet, BE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an Explicit Routing Method used in a packet-based network containing a number of network-nodes, source-nodes and destination-nodes. All before mentioned network elements are interconnected by links. This method is used to route a packet-flow from a source node towards a destination node, along an explicit path through a number of these network-nodes. This method includes the step of determination of the explicit path of the packet-flow between the source-node and the destination-node. A subsequent step is the determination of the relevant intermediate network-nodes situated on the explicit path which are necessary to deviate said packet-flow from a hop-by-hop-path onto said explicit path and further adding only addresses of these relevant intermediate network-nodes to the packets of the packet-flow. A following step is forwarding the packet-flow from the source-node towards the destination-node in direction of the explicit path.
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