ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,163, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (George Town, Cayman Islands).
"Method, apparatus, and system for controlling a flow entry" was invented by Yilong Lyu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including controlling a second network device to add the flow entry, so that the second network device performs message forwarding according to the flow entry; and after controlling the second network device to add the flow entry, receiving a message matching the flow entry and controlling the second network device to delete the flow entry under a certain condition, wherein the first network dev...