Patent ID: 11968119
Assignee: CIENA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a node, in a Segment Routing Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network, to perform steps of:
for a packet destined to a Service Function Chain (SFC), encoding one or more micro-Segment Identifiers (uSIDs) for the SFC, wherein at least one uSID of the one or more uSIDs includes an Endpoint Behavior field, and wherein the at least one uSID specifies a Number of Arguments based on either a field that specifies a number of one or more Arguments or based on encoding in the Endpoint Behavior field;
responsive to the at least one uSID needing one or more Arguments, including the one or more Arguments after the Endpoint Behavior field; and
transmitting the packet towards the SFC.