Patent ID: 11968114
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising a network device having processing circuitry and storage, wherein the processing circuitry has access to the storage and is configured to:
receive a network packet to be forwarded to a destination device;
store, within the network packet, visited node data identifying the network device as having been visited by the network packet;
identify, from among a plurality of egress links from the network device, a first link along a path to the destination device;
determine that the first link is inoperable;
identify, from among the plurality of egress links from the network device, a second link that is operable and is along an alternative path to the destination device; and
transmit the network packet over the second link.