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

Claim 0:
1. A node in a Segment Routing Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6) network, the node comprising circuitry configured to:
for a packet destined to a Service Function Chain (SFC), encode 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, wherein the at least one uSID includes one of (1) a Number of Arguments field that specifies a number of one or more Arguments and (2) the number of the one or more Arguments being embedded in the Endpoint Behavior field;
responsive to the at least one uSID needing one or more Arguments, include the one or more Arguments after the Endpoint Behavior field, and
transmit the packet towards the SFC.