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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:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne, Billancourt, FR;
Inventors:
Florin Balus, Cupertino, CA (US);
Wim Henderickx, Westerlo, BE;
Assignee:
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04L 12/723 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 45/507 (2013.01); H04L 45/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention includes a method and apparatus for distributing flooding labels within a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) infrastructure supporting Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Media Access Control (MAC) Virtual Private Networking (VPN).